South Australian Country Fire Service

The South Australian Country Fire Service (SACFS, commonly abbreviated as CFS) is a volunteer-based fire and rescue organisation in the state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the primary control agency for firefighting, rescues, hazardous materials and inland waterways in the country regions of South Australia. Its mission is "to protect life, property and the environment from fire and other emergencies whilst protecting and supporting our personnel and continuously improving".

Many parts of Australia are sparsely populated and at significant risk of bushfire. It would be prohibitively expensive for each Australian town or village to have a paid fire service (department). The compromise was to have government-funded equipment and training and volunteer firefighters to perform the duties of regular (salaried) firefighters. In South Australia, the name for the volunteer service is the CFS. Each state and territory has its own volunteer fire department, such as the Country Fire Authority in Victoria and the Rural Fire Service in New South Wales.

In the state capital of Adelaide and larger towns across South Australia, a conventional full-time service exists, the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (SAMFS). However, most towns (over 430 communities) rely on the CFS for day-to-day protection. Several Adelaide suburbs that retain extensive scrubland have CFS stations whose area of operation overlaps that of the SAMFS with joint training exercises sometimes organised for major community facilities such as the Flinders Medical Centre. For urban incidents, both services will often attend with the Metropolitan Fire Service taking command.