Your guide to Bushfire Safety

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Your guide to Bushfire Safety

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.

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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