Mini-city is set up in bushfire-ravaged South Australia to give exhausted firefighters a chance to rest in air-conditioned rooms
- Firefighters in South Australia have been built a remote mini-city to recuperate
- System of transportable buildings featuring state-of-the-art amenities was built
- The mini-city built on rugged Kangaroo Island can sleep 128 firefighters at once
A mini-city has been set up to give firefighters battling bushfires some much needed rest.
The portable housing system popped up on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, where accommodation is scarce.
The temporary buildings can sleep 128 people at once in the air-conditioned rooms and were locally designed and built by a South Australian company.
Dubbed the Humanihut the modules resemble shipping containers and can be rapidly deployed at a site, providing the comforts of permanent housing.
A mini-city has popped up on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia to give firefighters battling blazes in the state some much needed rest
The portable housing system can sleep 128 people at once in air-conditioned rooms and were locally designed and built by a South Australian company
Firefighters can rest and recuperate between stints battling blazes in the bush
The temporary housing can also be deployed in disaster zones and refugee camps around the world.
Former tourism minister Leon Bignell visited the site on Friday and said that SES and SA Country Fire Service volunteers are ‘proud of – and delighted by- their new digs.’
These new digs were much needed as Kangaroo Island, while having spectacular scenery, has hardly any accommodation.
Former tourism minister Leon Bignell visited the site on Friday and said that SES and SA Country Fire Service volunteers are ‘proud of – and delighted by- their new digs’
The mini-city even offers shower facilities for the firies with plumbing also shipped and assembled as part of the system
The large island off the coast of Adelaide and is a tourism hotspot owing to its rugged landscape.
The temporary buildings were transported to the island as flatpacks in shipping containers and were constructed on site by SES personnel.
The camp was jointly funded by the South Australian state government and the federal government in 2017.
This is the first time the transportable buildings have been operationally deployed in South Australia.
The temporary buildings were transported to the island as flatpacks in shipping containers and were constructed on site by SES personnel
Power generators and plumbing is shipped in and constructed on site