Fact Sheets

Below are fact sheets and brochures providing more detailed information to help you create your Bushfire Survival Plan.

Brochures in large print, audio formats and other languages can be found here.

A PDF list of the of the fact sheets can be found here.
The fact sheets can be found below under the following headings:

1. Planning to Survive a Bushfire

2. Understanding Bushfires and Warnings

3. Preparing Yourself

4. Preparing your Property

5. Pets, Horses and Livestock

6. Machinery, Storage, Permits and Restrictions

7. Preparing Your Business

8. Preparing with Others

9. Surviving While Travelling and on Holidays

Temporary Fact Sheets

 

 

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Fact Sheet Title

1.   Planning to Survive a Bushfire
Booklet: Your Guide to Preparing for and Surviving Bushfires
1.1   Prepare. Act. Survive
1.2   7 keys to survival
1.3   Plan now to stay and defend or leave early
1.4   Planning to leave early
1.5   Planning to stay and defend
1.6   Bushfire Safer Places (where to relocate on fire danger days)
1.7   On the day of a bushfire
1.8   What to do in the event of a bushfire

2.   Understanding Bushfires and Warnings
2.1   Bushfire behaviour in detail
2.2   SA Fire Ban Districts and Fire Danger Season
2.3   Fire Danger Ratings
2.4   Fire danger days
2.5   Bushfire Warning messages
2.6   Emergency Broadcast Partners (where to listen for warning and alert messages)

3.   Preparing Yourself 
3.1   Preparing yourself for bushfire
3.2   How people die in bushfires, and how they survive
3.3   Emergency kits
3.4   After the Fire

4.   Preparing your Property
4.1   Preparing your property
4.2   How houses burn
4.3   Identifying hazards around your home
4.4   House siting and design
4.5   Landscaping to minimise the impact of bushfire (DENR "Reducing fire risk in Gardens" booklet)
4.6   Fuel breaks
4.7   Creating asset protection zones (KI)
4.8   Firefighting equipment
4.9   Sprinkler systems
4.10 Bushfire shelters and bunkers
4.11 House fires (MFS Home Fire Safety publications page)
4.12 Bushfire information for renters 
4.13 Natural Gas and Bushfires - coming soon

5.   Pets, Horses and Livestock
5.1   Care of pets and livestock
5.2   Horses and bushfires
5.3   Protection of fodder reserves

6.   Machinery, Storage, Permits and Restrictions
6.1   Use of machinery  - coming soon
6.2   Maintenance of machinery - coming soon
6.3   Storage of flammables - coming soon
6.4   LP gas safety  - coming soon
6.5   Permits  - coming soon
6.6   Restrictions (what can I do / what can't I do?)

7.   Preparing your Business
7.1   Bushfire Safety: for organisations and business
Booklet: Bushfire Safety for Business and Organisations
Various templates and checklists available for businesses  -coming soon

8.   Preparing with Others
Brochure: Community Fire Safe
8.1   Fire safety strategies for community groups  -coming soon
8.3   Carer's information - coming soon  -coming soon

9.   Surviving While Travelling and on Holidays
9.1   Campfires and barbecues
Brochure: Holiday safety and survival
Brochure: Bushfire safety for travellers

Temporary Fact Sheets
as fact sheets are created for notification of changes to regulations, new initiatives, etc, they will be placed here....

 

 

 

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