Compiled Plans & Documents OPW18-0342 02

                                                                           Bushfire Emergency Provisions
                                            Retirement Living Village – 6 Grasstree Court, Sunrise Beach

Primary Action 3: Decision to Evacuate
These provisions seek to mitigate the threat of a bushfire emergency by initiating consistent
monitoring and early action, to prevent staff and occupants being placed in a situation of potential
danger in an emergency.

ACTION TRIGGER 1: FIRE WEATHER
The measures outlined below seek to ensure the facility is vacated well in advance of any bushfire
threat on days of increased fire danger, avoiding the need for emergency evacuation. This trigger
for action is based upon fire danger weather, rather than a warning, and represents the preferred
approach to increased fire danger days to enable safe and orderly evacuation of the facility.

In instances where the three day fire danger forecast indicates SEVERE, EXTREME OR CATASTROPHIC
fire danger, the following actions should be followed:

     •    Convene an urgent meeting of the EPC (including the ECO), and including all volunteer
          wardens to discuss the situation

     •    The EPC/ECO is to contact Noosa Shire Council’s Disaster Management Team (including
          Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and Queensland Police Service) to discuss the
          situation, to determine whether early evacuation (before a specific threat is identified) is
          necessary. The following provides a guideline for action in these fire weather events:

                a. On consecutive days of EXTREME OR CATASTROPHIC fire danger, in any combination,
                   residents must evacuate the facility no later than 9am on the day of increased
                   danger (but preferably the day prior), and residents may only return after 7pm on the
                   final day of the increased forecast – and only when instructed it is safe to do so by
                   Queensland Fire and Emergency Services or Noosa Shire Council.

                        i. The only exception to the above is in instances where Extreme and/or
                           Catastrophic fire danger days are punctuated by a day of lower fire danger
                           (i.e. a Severe or Very High danger day). In these cases, occupants should
                           continue to remain off premises.

                b. On single days of EXTREME OR CATASTROPHIC fire danger, the facility must be
                   evacuated no later than 9am on the day of increased danger (but preferably the
                   day prior), and residents may only return after 7pm – and only if an ignition has not
                   occurred nearby.

                c. On single days of a SEVERE fire danger forecast, residents are to be individually
                   doorknocked by the ECO and volunteer wardens to heighten awareness and
                   encourage self-evacuation for the day, and also to prepare for potential evacuation
                   should conditions worsen. The EPC/ECO however, can make a decision to evacuate
                   the facility.

                d. Alternatively, the EPC may act on the advice of emergency services.

Occupants may only return when the fire danger rating drops to Very High, for consecutive days
(i.e. occupants should not return if periods of Extreme and/or Catastrophic fire weather are again
forecast after single days of lower severity).

RECOMMENDATION: The doorknocking process should be divided into zones, with volunteer
wardens each assigned a zone. Within those zones, each volunteer warden should be provided a
list of each person who must be contacted via the doorknocking process. Those whom are deemed
to potentially require more time to evacuate (requiring assistance or particularly vulnerable) should
be prioritised. Each volunteer warden should then check off from the list those whom have been
contacted to confirm every occupant is contacted.

RESPONSIBILITY: The evacuation destination(s) for residents should be arranged in advance by the
operators of the facility. Residents may seek to stay with family or friends, the facility operators

Status: Provisions                                                                          December 2018
Project No.: 18-030                                                                              Page 18