THE Victorian government's changes to disaster management will mean little if fire services have their budgets cut, the firefighters' union says.
United Firefighters Union spokesman Mick Tisbury says the state government's decision to strip $41 million from the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and $25 million from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) is already affecting frontline services.
"Last Saturday, probably the first taste of the type of bushfire season we're going to have ... yet Greenvale fire station is shut down, Hallam fire station is shut down," he told reporters in Melbourne on Monday.
"You've got million dollar pieces of equipment sitting there rusting away."
Mr Tisbury said the state government's decision to create a new body, Emergency Management Victoria, was just "smoke and mirrors".
"This is just moving the deck chairs, trying to cover from the fact that the state government has ripped $66 million out of the budget - that's going to cost lives," he said.
Emergency Services Minister Peter Ryan described the union's claim as "alarmist and unnecessarily so".
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