Since fighting fires around his hometown of Canungra on Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland last month, volunteer rural firefighter Damon Rockliff has had little time to rest.

Key points: The Boonah Showgrounds is a temporary staging area for crews, complete with tents and food

The Boonah Showgrounds is a temporary staging area for crews, complete with tents and food About 100 crew are needed to facilitate the Boonah centre, with about 100 firefighters out in the field

About 100 crew are needed to facilitate the Boonah centre, with about 100 firefighters out in the field Volunteers work non-stop preparing hundreds of meals to help keep fire crews fed

Mr Rockliff, who has 20 years' experience as a rural firefighter, said he had never seen anything like the spring of 2019.

"We are all tired — it is just one of those things, but just got to help because it is everywhere and it is only going to get worse," he said.

He is a small business owner, but dropped everything to battle blazes around the Gold Coast hinterland, and more recently around Boonah in the Scenic Rim.

Mr Rockliff said he does it for love.

"We do it for the community — we are all pretty tight out here and we like it — we have a good group of friends so when it does happen, we all get together and help," Mr Rockliff said.

"A lot of people do not realise we [rural firefighters] are 100 per cent volunteer-based, that we do not get paid, we give up our day jobs for it — that is just the way it is."

Volunteer rural firefighter Damon Rockliff says he has never seen anything like the spring of 2019. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

'It is an army effort'

There are hundreds of men and women like Mr Rockliff working on the frontlines battling fires across the state, but behind every worker in the field is another person back at base making sure resources can get deployed.

Volunteers like Else Stibbe from the Salvation Army have been working non-stop to help keep the troops fed.

In just one day, she helped coordinate 225 breakfasts, 200 lunches, 296 dinners and 60 midnight snacks.

Snack packs for fire crews to eat in the field prepared by the Salvation Army at Boonah. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

"It is an army effort," Ms Stibbe said.

"These guys are preparing snack packs — they're what we give the firies when they go out in the field, so that if they get hungry and want a meal or sugar fix — whatever — they've got it on them.

"We get a lot of local volunteers helping with that — I've got about 12 people down in the kitchen preparing lunch for me now — I think we're managing it pretty well.

In just one day, Elsa Stibbe helped coordinate 225 breakfasts, 200 lunches, 296 dinners and 60 midnight snacks. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

The Boonah Showgrounds in the Scenic Rim region has been converted into a temporary staging area for these crews, complete with air-conditioned tents for crews to rest, food stations, and an incident control room.

About 100 crew are needed to facilitate the centre, while about 100 firefighters are out in the field.

Inside one of the temporary crew tents with air-conditioning for firefighters to rest. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

Annallisa Fiechtner works for Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES), but also volunteers out on the frontline when needed.

She has spent most of this week at the temporary incident control centre at Boonah helping coordinate crews.

"There are a lot of man-hours that are spent in this room," she said.

"Here we run all the fires that are currently going on around this area — we cover everything from operations, planning, logistics, and we have an incident controller.

"We'll manage what firefighters we need on the ground — how we're feeding them, accommodation, and all the rest."

Temporary air-conditioned crew tents housing firefighters and volunteers at Boonah. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

Ms Fiechtner said she knows the pressures of working on the frontline.

"I've been a volunteer firefighter for about eight years now," she said.

"In my normal day-to-day business I work with the area office, so I'm supporting all the brigades in my area from uniforms to [answering] questions."

Annallisa Fiechtner has spent most of this week at the temporary incident control centre at Boonah helping coordinate crews. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

'Massive logistical effort'

Superintendent Alan Gillespie, who is the Queensland Rural Fire Service (RFS) regional manager, is the man in charge of logistics.

"It is a massive logistical effort and it has taken a week to get to this point so far and as the fire grows, so does the logistical requirements of an incident this large," he said.

He has 3,500 volunteers to manage in the south east region, including some from the Northern Territory and Tasmania, but he runs a well-oiled machine.

Staff and volunteers working inside the incident control centre set up at the Boonah. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

"As with anything, it is a very dynamic situation, so the fire changes direction and the weather does something that sends everyone into a spin, but you look at the incident management team and everything is calm, everything is quiet, everyone is extremely busy," he said.

"It looks like all working independently, but we are all working as a team."

Firefighters prepare to head out from Boonah for another day on the frontline. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

Superintendent Gillespie vsaid this was one of the worst fire seasons he had seen so early.

"Right along the east coast an unprecedented fire season and the bureau [of Meteorology] is telling us this is not going to stop any time soon — that potentially we could be here at Christmas time."