Vic MFB, CFA to get more resources: Labor

Victorian firefighters have been promised the latest technology and training to tackle mine fires, should Labor win the November 29 state election.

Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews says the $2 million pledge is in response to the Hazelwood mine fire, which burned for 45 days earlier this year and left a $100 million bill.

An official inquiry found the fire was foreseeable and could have been mitigated, if not prevented, if the mine operator had taken better precautions. It also said the government was slow in advising vulnerable residents to relocate.

There were 14 firefighters who went to hospital for carbon monoxide exposure.

Under Labor's package, firefighters will be trained on the special conditions faced in a brown coal mine fire, including the strategies and tactics learned from the Hazelwood blaze.

Firefighters will also be taught about mine stability, carbon monoxide management and firefighter and community safety.

They will receive updated facemasks, canisters, carbon monoxide monitors and carbon monoxide haemoglobin testing kits.

"We simply can't ever again have a situation where our firefighters are not properly trained and are not properly equipped to fight such a fire," Mr Andrews told reporters on Sunday.

United Firefighters Union secretary Peter Marshall has welcomed the pledge and said the lessons from Black Saturday had not been learned.

"Victoria's lack of preparation saw firefighters exposed to elevated levels of carbon monoxide, which is lethal in high concentrations," he said in a statement.

"The fire services initially had no protocols for this then relied on a plan which had remained in draft form since 2006," he said.