Key Fire sites
Victoria is already in a state of disaster, and today looks like being a really bad day for fires in Sydney, so thought I would link a couple of key sites I use:
- RFS Fires Near Me. A list of all the fires being tracked by RFS.
- Fire Danger Ratings and Fire Bans. Today for all of Sydney region it is Extreme and a total fire ban.
- BOM also has warnings on the top of the page.
- Bushfire survivial plan. You should have one already, but if you don't, get one.
Stay safe!
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I can't remember why but I switched from the Fires Near Me to the Hazards Near Me app a few years back. Hazards Near Me
Iirc, the Hazards Near Me app replaces the old Fires Near Me and some other things. E.g. there used to be a separate app for floods; now it's all amalgamated into the one Hazards app.
A late upvote, but my brain just read:
"there used to be a separate app for floods; now it’s all
armageddonedinto the one Hazards app"🤣
Does NSW not have an equivalent of VicEmergency?
There's so much double up between the states, you wonder why they don't work on more stuff together
That looks very similar to the Hazards Near me app
I had not clocked that the hazards near me app was from the fire service... My bad!
I guess it does more than just fires?
Bushfire.io is another good tool. Similar to the RFS map, but it's not limited by state and they have more than just fire data. They have an app as well as the web map.