Phil Koperberg
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"Philip Christian Koperberg" , is the Chairman of the New South Wales Emergency Management Committee, responsible for advising the New South Wales government on State Emergency Service/emergency response strategies, since 2011.

Koperberg is a former Australian politician, was the New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change (New South Wales)/Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water between 2007 and 2008; and was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Electoral district of Blue Mountains/the Blue Mountains for the Australian Labor Party between New South Wales state election, 2007/2007–New South Wales state election, 2011/2011. Prior to his political career, Koperberg was the Commissioner#Other emergency services/Commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) in Australia between 1997–2007.

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The RFS is working in China, Malaysia, Bhutan, South Korea and Indonesia. We regularly send firefighters to the US at the management level to help with some of their enormous fires. Our losses are lower in comparative circumstances and we are generally ahead of the pack in terms of managing the fire issue across the board.

By declaring pre-emptive bushfire emergencies, all local areas will be in the highest state of readiness and will be able to deploy firefighters, tankers and aircraft immediately.

There are literally thousands of hectares of fire there and it's going to take us about four days to get around to all these fires and mop them up.

We lost a damn sight less than it would have been five years ago.