LifeAid Emergency Care

24/12/2025

Christmas looks different depending on where you’re standing.

For some, it’s family and food.
For others, it’s a shift change, a radio check, or a long drive home.

To our clinicians, instructors, partners, and families — thank you for the work you do, seen and unseen, at this time of year and all year.

Stay safe. Take care of each other.

— LifeAid

18/12/2025

LifeAid provides clinician-led fireline medical support for large-scale fire operations. We'd rather not sit on the edge of an incident waiting for something to happen. Instead, we embed with crews, incident management teams, and logistics, supporting the people doing the work over days and weeks, not just the first operational period.

Our focus is:
- Fatigue, heat load, hydration, and cumulative risk
- Early intervention before minor issues become evacuations
- Clinical continuity across long campaigns
- Supporting decision-making, not adding noise

Our business has been built by clinicians who have worked in remote, austere, and high-risk environments. The model is practical, calm, and designed to integrate into existing fire operations without disruption.

Fire doesn’t respect borders. Neither do we. LifeAid is deployable interstate, with established operations and drug authorities in Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia, and the capacity to scale in response to seasonal demand.

We exist to support the people who hold the line, so operations can keep moving safely and sustainably.

16/12/2025

When events overwhelm words, action matters.

Brendan “Hollywood” Ford donating blood today.

If you’re able, blood donation is one of the most practical ways to support the broader emergency and health response right now.

Thinking of our colleagues and communities. 🤍

11/12/2025

𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏𝘼𝙉𝙏 𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙀
This is a literal 'Heads Up' for the Warrandyte, North Warrandyte, South Warrandyte, Wonga Park & Park Orchards areas. TODAY you will see and hear firefighting aircraft doing laps of the area.

This activity is a fire agency exercise to demonstrate aircraft requirements, capabilities and assess possible local water sources - to support our fire fighting needs in an emergency. This is an incredible asset for our local planning to protect our community.

So please don't be alarmed, and instead appreciate this activity as CFA preparing for the summer ahead.

CFA North Warrandyte Fire Brigade
South Warrandyte CFA
Wonga Park CFA

03/12/2025

By Dr Kirstie Close Most people see a paramedic filling out paperwork and think it’s a chore — an administrative obligation squeezed between the “real work.” But when I look at images like the ones below — Andy hunched over a clipboard in the bush, or typing clinical notes in a small regio...

25/11/2025

A little throwback to the early 2000s — stretchers next to the piano, audits in the spare room, remote sites, and LifeAid troopies that saw Elvis (it's a long story).

This was the decade where LifeAid grew its bones.

Hard work and a whole lot of heart.

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If the 1990s were the foundational years of LifeAid — Vietnam, remote rigs, MICA ingenuity and young parents working in places most people never see — then the early 2000s were the years the business developed its bones. We didn’t have language like governance, frameworks, clinical oversight, ...

24/11/2025

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16/11/2025

Where LifeAid's story really began... Not in Australia — but in Vietnam in the 1990s, alongside an extraordinary group of clinicians, operators, and characters who shaped the early days of remote medical work in the region.

Before LifeAid existed, teams were working in Vung Tau, Vietnam, delivering care in resource-limited environments — supporting expat clinics, petroleum operations, evacuations, and everything in between. People like Ian Wilson, Allan “Thundercloud” Cross, and so many others brought the mix of capability, calm, and grit that defined that era.

Those years formed the foundations of what remote medical support would eventually become — long before it had structure, standards, or a name.

I’ve finally written the story of those early days, and how they shaped the ethos LifeAid carries now. If you worked in the region, knew any of the crew, or remember those days — you might recognise some of the names, places, or photos.

Read the full story here:
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-lifeaids-story-really-began-vietnam-1990s-kirstie-close-ycf5c

Most people who meet us now see LifeAid as it is today: clinicians on firegrounds, medics on remote mining sites, hi viz shirts moving quietly and competently through high-risk environments. But the story of LifeAid doesn’t begin with our current operations.

14/11/2025

✨ Our updated LifeAid website is now live!

We’ve refreshed the site to better show the work we do across:
• remote and onsite medical support
• fireline medics and wildfire response
• accredited first aid and emergency training
• support for mining, industry and community events

It’s now easier to find our services, view upcoming courses and contact our team.

Take a look:
🌐 https://lifeaid.com.au

Thank you to everyone who continues to support LifeAid — we’re proud to keep building and evolving as a clinician-led, family-built organisation.

LifeAid delivers clinician-led remote paramedicine, emergency medical support, and accredited training across Australia's most challenging environments - from the fireline to the mine site.

10/11/2025

At 11am, we pause.

To honour those who served, those who never came home, and those who carry the stories still.

We are reminded daily of the courage and sacrifice that many have shown while serving this country — mateship and care for others above all else.

Lest we forget. 🌺

06/11/2025

Twenty years in the Bowen Basin.

From our first 4WD ambulance at Hail Creek Mine back in 2005 to the fleet we operate today, LifeAid has been part of Central Queensland's story for two decades.

Through booms, shutdowns and change, one thing has stayed the same — our commitment to keeping people safe, supported and connected.

This piece looks back at how paramedic services in mining became what they are today, and what it means to still be based in Moranbah.

🚒 Read the story: Two Decades in the Bowen Basin

👉https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-decades-bowen-basin-how-lifeaid-helped-shape-paramedic-close-qd6gc

06/11/2025

Meet LA16 – our big beauty.

This heavy-duty fire and medical truck has worked side-by-side with crews across the Queensland, and she’s now based in Moranbah.

Built tough, fully mines-compliant, and ready for wet or dry hire, LA16 brings serious fire suppression and medical response power wherever it’s needed.

Proudly built and maintained by the LifeAid team. 💪