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Bushfire readiness:


  1. Prepare a written plan well in advance, based on defending your shelter or evacuating to a safer place.

  2. Written plan includes:

    1. Mitigation (3-4 months before fire season): tasks for reducing overall hazards, e.g. create fire management zone around buildings, reduce flammable vegetation, ensure buildings are ember proof, create emergency kit and fire-fighting equipment, and write a bushfire emergency plan.

    2. Preparation (1-2 months before): Test fire-fighting equipment, replenish water stores, check emergency kit is ready, ensure neighbours and animals are considered in plans.

    3. Response / Recovery (in bushfires): Check weather forecasts and emergency services updates. If evacuating, do so before the fire arrives and do not escape through fire.

   kellyjones00 (593)

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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires
Emergency kit: For surviving the day/s of fire, and up to four days afterwards.
- AM/FM radio with spare batteries.
- Waterproof torch and spare batteries.
- Phone and recharger and/or portable charger.
- Woollen blankets
- Protective clothing (long-sleeved shirt with collar and long pants, both of cotton drill or wool, minus hems. Wool socks. Closed shoes with rubber soles (no nails or studs). Broad-brimmed hat. Goggles. Strong gloves. Face mask. Do not wet clothing.)
- First aid kit and manual
- Emergency contact list (included with written bushfire plan)
Add before leaving:
- Money, EFTPOS cards
- Copies of important documents, e.g. title, birth certificate, passport, insurance policies
- Medications, sanitary supplies, toiletries
- Drinking water (3L / day / person)
- Non-perishable food
- Change of clothes
- Pet food, drinking water and bowls, leash
Suggestions for food stores:
- Powdered or UHT milk, tea, coffee
- Tins of baked beans, tuna, spaghetti, creamed rice, preserved fruit
- Precooked meal sachets
- Cereal
- Dried fruit and nut mixes
- Spoons, knives, forks, cups   kellyjones00 (593)

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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires
Fire fighting equipment list:
    — A minimum of 10,000L water (e.g. rain tanks, dams).

    — Do not rely on mains water, because town pressure can drop in emergencies

    — Drinking water (3L / day / person)

    — Mobile phone and charger / portable power supply

    — Woollen blanket for each person

    — Fire extinguishers

    — First aid kit, including artificial tears

    — AM/FM Radio with plenty of spare batteries

    — Metal buckets

    — Old-style cotton mops (very water absorbant)

    — Protective clothing

    — Torches and spare batteries

    — Hoses at least 18mm diameter, at least 20 metres long, with metal fittings

    — Knapsack sprayer, and other spray bottles

    — Shovel

    — Ladder

    — Towels

    — Face mask

    — Medication, including water purifying tablets

    — Gutter bungs

    — Sunscreen



    Tips for fighting a bushfire around a house:

    — Leave a ladder inside with a torch in the ceiling to check for embers

    — Leave a torch inside the house in case of power outages. Check batteries.

    — Leave a ladder outside to check gutters are full of water and to extinguish roof fires.

    — Ensure hoses reach all parts of the house.

    — Fill the bathtub with water.

    — Use metal buckets and mops to extinguish embers around the house.

    — Use woollen blankets as a shield from radiant heat.

    — Place wet towels along door gaps to prevent entrance of embers and smoke into house.

    — Use shovels and rakes for breaking up piles of burning material and to extinguish it by covering with dirt.

   kellyjones00 (593)

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