Reference Document Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan 131998.981.5

Bushfire Evacuation Plan v4 NCES REF: J001061
Lot 7 on RP216403, Lot 394 on M371117, and Lot 650 on M37380 — 48-59 Kabi Road, Cootharaba

 

2. A secondary exit route for emergency evacuation is to be via the fire access trail in the
south-east comer of the site which links through to Cootharaba Downs Road and
ultimately Louis Bazzo Drive.

If instructed by QFES to evacuate the site, the fire warden will confirm with QFES which exit
route is to be used and then release guests from the site in a controlled, staged manner so as
not to congest the external roads.

7. EVACUATION ROUTES

The available evacuation routes to the club house shelter in place location within the site
comprise the internal road network. This road network will generally be flanked by low threat
manicured lawns and permaculture fields host to negligible fuel loads. A small section of the
route about the maintenance sheds comes in close proximity to hazardous vegetation. It is a
recommendation of the NCES BHAMP v4 2024 that this section of road is set within a 10m
fully cleared corridor comprised of the driveway and 3m fully cleared conditions either side.

The risk of the access route to the shelter in place location becoming blocked during a wildfire
is considered unlikely and if so would only be very temporary until forest edge burnout occurs.
The available evacuation routes within the site to the shelter in place location are identified in
Plate 2.

   

 

 

Plate 2 — Available evacuation routes to shelter in place building (Source: Plan of Development by
Elevation Architecture)

The available evacuation routes beyond the site through the local landscape are flanked by a
mosaic of fuel laden bushland and scattered cleared to semi cleared rural properties host to
low to moderate fuel loads. The risk of entrapment external of the site is therefore real and
strategic selection of the most suitable external evacuation route during a bushfire event will
be a critical decision.

Note, given the extent of cleared land between the shelter in place location and adjacent
bushland areas, it is expected that the shelter in place policy will stand for the majority of
bushfire events.