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Your step will soil many countries.

Bushfire Planning Workshops from the CFA

Hi All,
I hope that you all had a safe Christmas & New Year and I wish you all the best for 2010.
We have had a few hot days and I trust that your “Fire Plans” have been activated accordingly. While we are currently experiencing some cooler weather it is warming up again later in the [...]

Confused? - I was!

Hi All,

The past few days have brought a flurry of queries regarding the Fire Districts. There are two districts relevant to bushfire which have different boundaries.

Total Fire Ban District – for legislation governing lighting of fires & use of equipment to prevent ignitions of fire.

Yarra Area / Region 13 is in CENTRAL

2. [...]

News from the CFA

Hi to all FireGuard members.

Hope you all had a good Christmas & New Year.

As you will be aware we are heading into a few hot days, keep aware of the Fire Danger Ratings and particularly local conditions over the weekend & into early next week. I urge everyone to make sure their preparations are done [...]

Fire Danger Forecast this Thursday

Article from David Packham

The fire weather estimates for Thursday 19 Nov 2009 are looking a little concerning.

The Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) for the North West of the State is in the 60 – 90 range, the Grass Fire Danger Index (GFDI) is in the 40 – 60 range.
Both of these indices are such [...]

CFA Scanner Channels

Here is the documentation of the current Channels used in our region.CFG_RadioChannels_2009.10

CFG Update

Hi to all the CFG leaders & members,

Just wanted to update you on a few things, hope everyone is OK and getting prepared for the coming fire season.

CFG Forums. “ Understanding Black Saturday” Sunday 6th December

Kangaroo Ground in the morning  -  Lilydale / Montrose [...]

Dr Tolhurst Videos

Dear Fireguard Members,
Just to let you know that the video of the talk given by Dr Tolhurst at Warrandyte Community Church on 6th August is now available.

If you go to http://www.warrandytechat.com/dr-tolhurst-videos/ you will find that after you have logged in you can either download the video in parts from the site or you [...]

CFA Newsletter to Community Fireguard Groups

[Edited letter from CFA]

Dear Fireguard Leaders

Hope that everyone is OK.

Enclosed is the Fireguardian Sept 09 newsletter for you to distribute to the households in your Community Fireguard group.

CFG courses during October & November require booking, the number of attendees at each is limited and we anticipate the demand for these courses will [...]

First Community Rakeathon in Kruses Road

Welcome Matthew and Eleanor

Kruses Road Community Fireguard Group held its first neighbourhood Rakeathon today to welcome new residents to the community.

With 20 members of the group plus Mathew’s parents Nick and Barbara and about 13 of their friends all helping out the atmosphere was terrific.

Works got off to a prompt start at 10am and piles [...]

Clearing our properties and the Victorian Government

Thanks to Jim Child’s Council Watch for posting these items:

Brumby to give owners right to clear bush property an article in the Herald Sun on 21/08/09

Click here to see PowerPoint presentation

the presentation which identifies Warrandyte and North Warrandyte as “The highest risk areas for this fire season“