Your guide to Bushfire Safety
Publication: 28 Pages | For: Everyone
Available in PDF (16.7mb), audio and printed.
Bushfires can start suddenly without warning - are you ready?
If you and your home are well prepared, you stand a better chance of surviving a bushfire. This guide explains ways of making your property less vulnerable to bushfire attack, will help you make the correct choices if a bushfire threatens and incorporates a template for your Bushfire Survival Plan.
What’s inside this guide:
- Am I at risk and what Fire Ban District am I in?
- What do the Fire Danger Ratings mean and what are the fire regulations - what can I / can’t I do?
- Why do you need to plan and how to prepare your home and get ready, including creating your Bushfire Survival Plan.
- What to do on a fire risk day and during a fire.
- Information on radiant heat and how bushfires behave.
- Surviving if you get caught in a building or in a car.
Audio
| Chapter | Listen |
|---|---|
| Introduction | |
| What's inside this guide | |
| Bushfires can start suddenly without warning - are you ready? | |
| Am I at risk? | |
| What Fire Ban District am I in? | |
| What do the Fire Danger Ratings mean? | |
| Fire regulations - what can I / can't I do | |
| Why do I need to plan? | |
| Prepare your home and get ready | |
| On a fire risk day | |
| During a fire | |
| Radiant heat can kill | |
| How bushfires behave | |
| Surviving if you get caught in a building | |
| If you are caught in a car | |
| If it's a fire danger day tomorrow | |
| Preparing yourself | |
| Bushfire survival plan | |
| Leaving early plan | |
| Stay and defend plan | |
| Bushfire Watch and Act and Emergency Warning Messages | |
| CFS Regional Offices | |
| Contact | |
| Closing announcement |