Reference Document Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan 131998.981.5

   
   
   
  
   

You don’t have to live in the bush to be threatened by bushfire,
just close enough to be affected by burning material, embers,
and smoke.

PREPARE

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Planning and preparing for bushfire is essential to your survival Tels bette iene
in a bushfire — people who plan and prepare for bushfires are xR RRESISSCi iris Pete
more likely to survive than those that do not. iLiad TEN TMC TTC NAC
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early indicator of potential danger,
and should act as your first trigger
» Decide NOW if you will prepare to stay or prepare to leave. Hoya Cold PAM Cele CM CLL a UA

» Share your Bushfire Survival Plan with your family and greater the need for you to act.
friends.

» Practise your Bushfire Survival Plan regularly.

ACT

» Prepare your Bushfire Survival Plan (BSP)
contact your local fire station for a copy or download one at
www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au.

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Monitor conditions and review
your Bushfire Survival Plan.

 

Take Action to save your life.

» Refer to your prepared Bushfire Survival Plan.

» Ifyou are going to prepare to leave.
Notify your family and friends that you are
leaving.

Tell them where you are going.

» Ifyou are going to prepare to stay. :
Follow the plans you have made in your Bushfire You eu CU AONE,
Survival Plan to prepare your home. UMN LO Ue

Notify your family and friends that you are
staying.

WATCH AND ACT

Conditions are changing. Start
taking action and follow your
Bushfire Survival Plan.

» Tune in to bushfire warnings via your local radio station, QFES websites and social media.

SURVIVE

 

Follow your plan (or BSP) to stay alive. If you have stayed
» As the fire passes.

 

 

Ifyou have left early Stay inside your home until the fire has
» Don’t return to your home until you are passed.
advised it is safe to do so. Keep hydrated.
» Remember to look out for dangers as you Check around your home for possible
return home including: embers.
Emergency Crews working around the area. Check on everyone in your home and make
Animals not behaving normally. sure they are ok.
Trees that may have been weakened by the » Once it has passed.
fire and can fall at any time. Check around the outside of your house for
Power lines that have come down or may fall. spot fires.
Water and other infrastructure that may not Drink plenty of water.
be working. Stay at your home until it is safe.

» Stay tuned in for bushfire warnings and
messages.

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www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au or read other
PREPARE.ACT.SURVIVE. resources.

 

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