Australian fires: RFS commissioner not told of Scott Morrison's call-up of ADF reserve

Shane Fitzsimmons was 'disappointed and frustrated' to learn of prime minister's reservists deployment plan from media reports

The New South Wales RFS commissioner, Shane Fitzsimmons, said neither he nor defence force personnel working from the state control centre were informed by the prime minister, Scott Morrison, of a plan to deploy 3,000 army reservists to assist in the bushfire crisis.

Fitzsimmons was "disappointed and frustrated" to learn of the plan through media reports on Saturday when fire crews were battling the most challenging conditions to date in terms of the number of concurrent fires in NSW.