Create your Bushfire Survival Plan
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List name and contact details to remember your:
Leaving?
Who will leave early:
- Bushfire Evacuation Kit
Staying?
Who will stay:
Your Bushfire Survival Plan
Your household details:
Leaving?
Who will leave early:
Plan for livestock and pets?
Tune in to warnings
Don't assume you'll receive a warning as a fire approaches and don't assume a fire crew will be available to assist every home. It's up to you to monitor conditions, know what the Fire Danger Rating is each day and to tune in to local media including radio, social media and websites.
Get your Bushfire Evacuation Kit out
Bottled water (enough for all)
Blankets (natural fibres)
Passports & birth certificates
Family photos, valuables & documents
Complete your preparation for the approaching fire
Whether you are staying or leaving, there are some basic precautions you can take to help protect your property from a fire well before the fire front arrives.
- Move cars to a safe location
- Remove garden furniture, door mats and other items
- Close windows and doors and shut blinds
- Take down curtains and move furniture away from windows
- Seal gaps under doors and windows with wet towels
- Bring pets inside and restrain them (leash, cage, or secure room) and provide water
- Block downpipes (at the top) and fill gutters with water if possible
- Wet down the sides of buildings, decks and close shrubbery in the likely path of the bushfire
- Wet down fine fuels close to buildings
- Turn on garden sprinklers for 30 minutes before the bushfire arrives
- Fill containers with water - baths, sinks, buckets, wheelie bins
- Tune in to warnings to monitor local radio, websites or social media for updates
- Put on protective clothing
- Drink lots of water.
What steps will you take as the fire front arrives?
As the fire front arrives:
- Disconnect hose and fittings and bring inside
- Go inside for shelter
- Drink lots of water
- Shelter in your house on the opposite side of the approaching fire
- Patrol and check for embers inside, particularly in the roof space
- Check on family and pets
- Maintain a means of escape
- Continually monitor conditions.
After the fire front has passed, check for small spot fires and burning embers:
- Inside the roof space
- Under floor boards
- Under the house space
- On verandahs and decks
- On window ledges and door sills
- In roof lines and gutters
- In garden beds and mulch
- In wood heaps
- Around outdoor furniture.
Have a contingency plan and be ready to implement it.
What's your contingency?
What's your trigger for acting on it?
Is there a local Neighbourhood Safer Place?
Bushfire Emergency Kit
Bottled water (enough for all)
Blankets (natural fibres)
Notes:
Now print your Bushfire Survival Plan and keep it in a safe place ready for action at short notice. Share with family and friends.
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