Guide to Bushfire Safety

This booklet is a guide to help protect your home and the lives of your family. 

It explains ways of making your property less vulnerable to bushfire attack and will help you make the correct choices if a bushfire threatens.

It incorporates a template for your Bushfire Survival Plan.

Also available in large print and text only for ease of reading.

Our 2010-2011 Brochure is also available in the following languages.

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Community Fire Safe

Community Fire Safe is a program coordinated by the CFS that encourages residents living in bushfire risk areas to form small groups and work together in preparing and protecting their families and properties from bushfire. These groups can consist of just a few families living in the same street or area who face a common bushfire threat.

Also available in large print and text only for ease of reading.

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Holiday Safety and Survival

Bushfires can occur without warning and can quickly impact your holiday location. If you are planning a holiday, you need to think about bushfire safety. This leaflet will help you to prepare if a bushfire does occur in the area.

Our 2010-2011 brochure is also available in the following languages:

Also available in large print and text only for ease of reading.

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Bushfire Safety for Travellers

If you are planning to travel in the country you need to think about bushfire safety.

This leaflet will help you manage your country travel plans and help you prepare yourself and your vehicle in case a bushfire does occur.

Also available in large print and text only for ease of reading

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Bushfire safety & survival for business & organisations

New

All businesses, organisations and individuals who work in
or visit bushfire risk areas need to develop and implement
their own Bushfire Safety and Survival policies, plans and
procedures.
Use this guide  to prepare your people and your business for the next bushfire season.

Download the Business Bushfire Safety Plan templates here (80kb)
Register to be sent Business plan news and updates here

Bushfire safety in outback SA

New

Currently out of stock - download only

Are you visiting or travelling through the outback this bushfire season?

This leaflet will help you know your risk, be prepared and know what to do if you encounter a bushfire.

(Currently out of stock, available as a download only)

Reducing fire risk in gardens 

New

Urban landscapes, including parks and gardens, can be planned and designed to minimise vulnerability and strengthen resistance to fire.  Careful attention needs to be paid to design, plant selection, materials and product selection and the maintenance of our garden environments.

The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Sustainable Landscapes Project has produced this informative guide to planning and and designing a garden to minimise risk from fire.

Prepare. Act. Survive. DVD