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24.01.2022 Fires Near Me is not perfect but it is the best we have available & we highly recommend downloading & using it during the fire season. We also recommend knowing your local ABC Radio station & listening for updates.

24.01.2022 Strong and gusty winds are forecast for much of NSW over coming days. A reminder for landholders to check local conditions before conducting hazard reduction burns. Also you must notify your local fire authority and your neighbours at least 24 hours before lighting up. You can now notify the RFS online about your planned burn: www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/notify

24.01.2022 If you update your Fires Near Me NSW app or check our website, you'll see new icons for bush fires across NSW. This part of a new national approach to warnings.... Over time they'll be used for more hazards in more locations, so you can expect to see the same approach whether you're at home, work or travelling. See more

23.01.2022 Despite out best efforts, bushfires are inevitable in our area due to ignition by lightning, accident or arson. Bushfire maintains its energy by continually moving into new fuel - the fuel is the only factor we can manage, to stop fire & reduce its impact. Call Seb King on 0407 838 258 to discuss options to reduce fuel on your property. We should all plan well in advance with what we need to do to protect our family & assets.

23.01.2022 Know your weather. Know your risks.

22.01.2022 "People often underestimate the value of asset protection zones. Here is a perfect example how a well maintained asset protection zone will protect your property this fire season. Here is a photo of the recent mid winter salt ash fire and the village of Tanilba Bay". Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your property Asset Protection Zone & other bushfire management issues.

22.01.2022 It’s time to get started for the upcoming fire season. If you need any help call Seb in 0407 838 258.

21.01.2022 The continuing hot & windy weather is drying up the regrowth from the recent rain. Stay vigilant & keep safe.

21.01.2022 Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to start preparing your home for bushfire risks.

19.01.2022 Another successful Asset Protection Zone established in preparation for this year's Fire Season. An Asset Protection Zone will reduce the risk of direct flame contact on an asset, reduce intense heat from damaging asset & reduce ember attacks. Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your options to stay safe this Summer.

16.01.2022 With Fire Season fast approaching now is the time to prepare yourself, your family & your property to better survive bushfires. A well prepared property is easier for you & firefighters to defend & is more likely to survive a bushfire & ember attack than an unprepared one. Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your options.

14.01.2022 Do you understand what bushfire fire danger ratings mean?

13.01.2022 My name is Sebastian King & I have been involved in the RFS & bushfire behaviour for over 20 years, gaining many formal Brigade qualifications. Being with the RFS, I have been a part of many firefighting campaigns Australia wide & have seen firsthand the devastating impact on peoples lives. What I also have noticed is that there are many simple ways people can improve their chances of survival with less impact. Get Bushfire Ready's primary objective is to alleviate as far as reasonably practicable the ongoing & increasing danger of the inevitable bushfire risk to people & property.

13.01.2022 Will Emergency Service Vehicles be able to access your property this Bushfire season? Call Sebastian King on 0407 838 258 to ensure trucks can make it through.

13.01.2022 You can't outrun it or outlast it, so take 5 minutes to outsmart it. Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your rural property bushfire mitigation options.

12.01.2022 The attached NSW Bushfire Inquiry has made 76 recommendations including the following. Recommendation 20 That Government, noting that hazard reduction targeted in proximity to assets is on balance more likely to provide help than hinder, should:... a) support local councils and partner agencies to implement more comprehensive hazard reduction at a local level around towns/cities, communities and local infrastructure assets, and provide incentives for communities to organise themselves to prioritise and implement local hazard reduction initiatives. This will involve a suite of hazard reduction techniques depending on the landscape including prescribed burning, clearing, mowing, and mechanical treatments, and easy disposal of green waste into processors turning it into bioenergy or biofuels. Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your property hazard reduction requirements. https://cdn.fbsbx.com//Final-Report-of-the-NSW-Bushfire-In

12.01.2022 This season's La Nina's extra rainfall may lessen the severity of bushfires. But it has helped grass has to grow fast and tall - and this will dry out fast and ...ready to burn. ARE YOU READY FOR GRASS FIRES No home should be destroyed by a grassfire. Evacuation from a grassfire moving towards your home usually carries a disproportionate risk to that of staying indoors to shelter or to actively protecting it. Grassfires move fast and their intensely hot radiated heat can kill. But although they can move at up to 27 km/h: each flame subsides in only five seconds at any given spot, its front burns out in less than 1.5 minutes. Depending on the height of the grass and the strength of the wind: each burning stalk sends tiny embers of glowing seed heads up to 100 metres ahead. these are unlikely to stay alight long enough to leap over a perimeter fence. OUTER URBAN HOUSES The threat is usually from adjacent grassy empty housing blocks or paddocks. Any grassfire here can be prevented from reaching your home by such simple measures as: mowing or weed-killing for 2-metres on the outer side of perimeter fences mowing grass nature strip and road verges or having them grazed, gravelled or paved. In February, 2013, authorities' panic reaction to a grassfire near an outer Melbourne suburb housing estate caused more danger to residents than the fire itself. Mass evacuation of the whole estate was ordered: onto a peak-hour Hume Freeway. Hundreds of residents were trapped in a traffic gridlock, unable to either get out of the estate or onto the freeway as they tried to obey orders to evacuate from their neatly manicured houses and almost bare-of-vegetation suburban streets. Time wasted in ‘getting out’ is better spent preventing sparks and embers from getting in. The advice that ought to have been given those residents was not to evacuate, but (if time allowed) to mow a wide grass break alongside perimeter fences, close their windows and doors, put on cover-all clothing and stand by the fences with hoses to aim over them and douse any sparks jumping the fences. RURAL PROPERTIES Grassfire fuel-breaks can halt the run of a grassfire that is moving towards them. TO PROTECT HOUSE AND SHEDS they need to be: all around the property from 3-10 metres wide, depending on topography as far away as possible from trees. Where there are trees, width of breaks need to be 1.5 times the height of the tallest tree. Fuel breaks can be horizontal or vertical: areas mowed, weed-killed, grazed, gravelled, irrigated, ploughed or burnt. *width varies with crop type, closeness to forest, ground slope etc. fences such as stone, corrugated iron or even fine wire mesh In field experiments in 1986 Andrew A. G. Wilson found that 'the probability of a (grass) firebreak being breached by flame or spotting during the head-on approach of a grass fire increases with the presence of trees within at least 20 metres of it and decreases with increasing firebreak width'. TO PROTECT STOCK they need to be: They need to be: at least 3-metres of bare earth: ploughed or grazed. both sides of the fence This can: stop the run of a grassfire stop the spread of fire into areas where stock are enclosed reduce the radiant heat reaching stock prevent it from burning fence posts. HAYSTACKS need 4.5 metres of bare ploughed ground between each stack vegetation beyond the bare ground mown or grazed for a further 912 metres. For further details see my The Complete Bushfire Safety Book https://www.penguin.com.au//the-complete-bushfire-safety-b or its companion ready reference Essential Bushfire Safety Tips www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6969.htm A useful book for anyone wanting to know everything about grassfires is definitive work 'Grassfires', by Phil Cheney and Andrew Sullivan https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/5971/

10.01.2022 Not only does Get Bushfire Ready prepare your property for a safer Bushfire Season, they will also tidy up unsightly, hard to access areas. Under scrub will be mulched back into the ground & you won’t be left with piles to get rid of, which would add to more fire risk. Adequate fire breaks can slow the run of a fire & as an added bonus, discourage snakes

09.01.2022 ARE YOU BUSHFIRE READY?

09.01.2022 Well worth watching, last Summers local close call, the Gospers Mountain Fire. The largest fire on record. It confirms our need to protect ourselves from the inevitable increased danger of bushfires.

06.01.2022 Fire Season has officially started, are you prepared? Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to help protect you, your home, your property & your family against bush fire impact.

03.01.2022 Call Seb on 0407 838 258 for all your bushfire mitigation needs.

02.01.2022 "Emergency service commissioners from around the country questioned whether there was an adequate set up with disasters likely to become more frequent and more concurrent into the future". As the old saying goes, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". A properly maintained property significantly improves the survivability of structures & an unprepared property is not only a risk to the owners but also to neighbouring properties. Call Seb on 0407 838 258 to discuss your options. You may be surprised by the simple & relatively cheap solutions available.