Volunteer Firefighter Perth

A second volunteer firefighter from exact same Perth brigade features appeared in judge charged with lighting a fire and making false disaster telephone calls.

Jourdan Ashford, which works closely with the Bedfordale brigade, was accused of burning a bushfire on Admiral path in belated August this present year.

Ashford was also among the first respondents to that fire which was quickly extinguished.

He had been in addition recharged associated with several untrue fire security calls to Triple-0 in August and September.

At Armadale Magistrates legal, the prosecution argued against giving the volunteer bail.

Whenever Ashford had been asked by the magistrate why he should get bail, he reacted by saying "I don't reckon we'll try it again as the experience to date happens to be traumatic".

Ashford was given bail at the mercy of a $5, 000 surety.

He had been additionally purchased to stay at his residence unless maneuvering to or from their work, and also to don't have any experience of any person from Bedfordale Volunteer Fire provider.

Ashford is due to face court once more the following month.

Early in the day this week, an 18-year-old volunteer firefighter from the exact same brigade appeared in court faced with burning two fires and making untrue disaster calls in Perth.

Jayden D J Parker is alleged to have used a cellular phone that did not have a SIM card to phone triple-0 about fires when you look at the Bedfordale area between September and December.

The Perth Magistrates Court heard on each celebration fire teams searched the area but discovered no fire.

The alleged false notifications about a number of tree-dense locations into the Bedfordale area, in Perth's south-east.

It is also alleged in belated December, Parker twice-used a smoking less heavy to create bushland alight before utilizing the exact same SIM-less phone to phone authorities.

The court heard Parker attended with local fire crews and assisted put out the blazes, certainly one of that was about 50 by 30 metres in proportions.

It was informed the fires had been presumably lit and reported belated during the night on both events.