In December 2019 ACT declared a number of Total Fire Ban Days.

A State of Alert was declared for the ACT on 2 January 2020, with ACT Emergency Services Commissioner Georgeina Whelan as the Emergency Controller.

MAPS volunteers were called to ESA headquarters to assist.

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In January 2020 the fires entered ACT and over the next month fires volunteers were continued to be called.

From 1 October 2019 to 4 February 2020 ACT declared a record 24 Total Fire Ban days, the ACT on average sees 5–6 per bushfire season.

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The Orroral Valley fire burned over 86,000 hectares of land, approximately 30% of the ACT.

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For ACT MAPS provided: 

- 101 deployments

- 33 members

- 8 locations

- 111 MAPS volunteer days.

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Members deployed
- 1 member deployed 14 times for a total 47 days
- 9 members deployed five or more times
- 7 members deployed for ten or more days

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80% of our members deployed over the fire season. Of the remaining 20%, more than half had not yet had the training to undertake the roles.