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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires Bushfire readiness: Prepare a written plan well in advance, based on defending your shelter or evacuating to a safer place. 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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