Att3 - Bushfire Report

Bushfire Evacuation Plan v1                                                                  NCES REF: J001061
Lot 7 on RP216403, Lot 394 on M371117, and Lot 650 on M37380 – 48-59 Kabi Road, Cootharaba




6. TRANSPORTATION
Visitors and staff are to either walk or use personal vehicles to gain access to the central hall
building and vehicles are to be parked in convoy along the roadside in case a site evacuation
order is issued. Under such circumstances visitors and staff personal vehicles are to be used
to evacuate the site. Road access for emergency evacuation is to be from the only entry exit
point in the southwest corner of the site. If instructed by QFES to evacuate the site, the fire
warden will 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 central hall shelter in placer location within the site
comprise the internal road network. This road network will be flanked by low threat manicured
lawns and permaculture fields host to negligible fuel loads. The risk of the access routes to the
shelter in place location becoming blocked during a wildfire is therefore unlikely. Only one main
road has been incorporated into the design of the camp with the site’s only entry/exit route
flanking hazardous bushland. The available evacuation routes within the site to the shelter in
place location are identified in Plate 2.


          Shelter in place                                      Internal road network
          buildings                                             evacuation routes




                  Site entry / exit

              Plate 2 – Available evacuation routes to shelter in place building (Source: POD)

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.

In the instance where QFES confirms that the site is to be fully evacuated it is expected
directives would be given for site occupants to travel to the township of Tewantin or Pomona.
The available evacuation routes from the site to township to Tewantin or Pomona are identified
in Plate 3. The available evacuation routes comprise:

•   Head West along Kabi Road, South along Cootharaba Road, Southeast along Junction
    Road, South along Louis Bazzo Drive, then either:
         o   South along McKinnon Drive towards the Tewantin Township; or




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