Att 5. BAL Report - 555 Louis Bazzo Dr

There are a number of measures you can take to
prepare your home and property for bushfire. These
include several preparations you must take annually
prior to the bushfire season.

Your pre-season property preparations should include:

= Displaying a prominent house number.

= Ensuring there is adequate access for fire trucks
to your property — 4 metres wide by 4 metres high
with a turn-around area. Reduce vegetation loads
along the access path.

= Mowing your grass regularly.

= Removing excess ground fuels and combustible
material (long dry grass, dead leaves and
branches).

= Clearing of leaves, twigs, bark and other debris
from the roof and gutters.

= Purchasing and testing the effectiveness of gutter
plugs.

= Trimming low-lying branches 2 metres from the
ground surrounding your home.

= Enclosing open areas under your decks and floors.

= Installing fine steel wire mesh screens on all
windows, doors, vents and weep holes.

= Pointing LPG cylinder relief valves away from the
house.

= Conducting maintenance checks on pumps,
generators and water systems.

= Checking that you have sufficient personal
protective clothing and equipment.

= Relocating flammable items away from your home
including woodpiles, paper, boxes, crates, hanging
baskets and garden furniture.

= Sealing all gaps in external roof and wall cladding.

= Checking that the first aid kit is fully stocked.

Bushfire Alerts

If you receive an emergency warning about a bushfire or
other emergency, take notice as it could save your life.

There are three types of alert messages to help you
make the right safety choices:

SEE

Bushfire Advice Message — a fire has started — general
information to keep you up to date.

Bushfire Watch and Act Message — represents a
heightened level of threat. Conditions are changing, a
fire is approaching; lives may come under threat. Take
appropriate action.

Bushfire Emergency Warning — is the highest level
message advising of impending danger. It may be
preceded with the Standard Emergency Warning
Signal (SEWS).

An Emergency Warning
means there is a threat
to lives and protective

action is required
immediately.

When a bushfire strikes

You have made your decision to PREPARE.ACT. SURVIVE.
You have prepared your property before the fire season.
You have made your Bushfire Survival Plan. You have
practised your Bushfire Survival Plan.

A bushfire is threatening? What do you do?

= Know the FDR for any given day.

= Regularly check the FDR on the Rural Fire Services
website at www. ruralfire.qld.gov.au.

= Monitor your media outlets for warnings on
bushfire activity.

= Seek out information if you have to, and do not
assume that you will receive a warning.

= Leave early or stay according to your Bushfire
Survival Plan.

= Act decisively in accordance with your Bushfire
Survival Plan.

= Do not adopt the ‘wait and see’ option.

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