Western Australia Fire and Rescue Service (Australia)

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by Andy Weir

• Description of the flag
• Usage of the flag

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• Australia
• Western Australia

Description of the flag

From http://www.webace.com.au/~lowpress/brigadeflag.htm:

On the 14th November 1978 the "150 Year Anniversary Celebrations Sub-Committee" of the Western Australian Fire Brigades Board resolved that the Chief Officer investigate and report on the possibility of producing a Brigade flag.

Assistant Chief Officer Noel Stephens reported that the National Fire Service in the United Kingdom during the 1939-1945 war produced a flag with the Union Jack (properly called "the Union Flag") in the canton, the second and third quarters blue and the fourth quarter red matching the red in the Union Jack. Briefly, that is a blue ensign with a red fourth quarter.

The Western Australian State flag is a blue ensign with the addition of the State badge of a black swan on a gold circle symmetrically placed between the second and fourth quarters with the swan swimming towards the hoist.

Assistant Chief Officer Stephens submitted that it would be fitting to bring together the fine traditions represented by these two flags to produce a new flag for the Western Australian Fire Brigades consisting of a State flag with the fourth quarter red. Legally, the general rule is that it is open to any-one to create whatever flags he or she wa