Lismore CFA Fire Brigade and Ambulance Victoria.
News:
If you have a fire: Ring .000 They will ask you for your street address.
Official opening of the new ambulance and fire station was 10 April.
The old fire station was sold on 8 April
Fire restrictions are now in force, from 1 November. No burning without a permit (from your Captain, or the Shire.)
Click here for CFA Act 1958 (with amendments July 2011)
Fire restrictions lift in May, but may be earlier. However if you plan to make a lot of smoke please tell your neighbours, your brigade captain (Ian Marquand .0409973685) and also Vicfire .1800668511. Otherwise you will have a lot of fire trucks in your yard.
The Summary Offences Act 1966 governs the conditions that you can light fires and stubble in the open air outside the fire restrictions period. (If it does not download you may have to google the sand download it. It is paragraph 11 on page 18.)
Click here for current fires in Victoria
Click here for CFA on twitter for updates on fires and incidents
Click here for CFA on Facebook for more updates and gossip
Click here for FireReady App for iPhone showing current fires. Details of the App are here. Download from the iTunes store.
Click here for instruction manual for the new Tait radios.
There is also room for an ambulance.
Local ambulance volunteers are looking for more members. You can help!
Local fire news
We hope to keep this web map page updated to notify the public of planned burnoffs, and give prograss reports of any smaller fires and incidents.
We also plan to keep a map of raised beds and firebreaks updated for ready reference.
History of earlier fires.
There have been many fires over the years.
This map shows where some have been.(Click on any of the fires listed on the left of the map screen to bring up the details)
(**For some of the reports listed below CFA members will have to log in when prompted to CFA Online.)
A summary of major bush fires in Australia since 1851 by Romsey Australia.
Major bush fires in Victoria by Forest Science Centre.(Link now lost)
Account of the 12 Feb 1977 Fires around Lismore by CSIRO McArthur, Cheney, and Barber,**
Fires of 12 Feb 1977 by CSIRO booklet for sale.
16 Feb 1983 Ash Wednesday Fires (Otways start on page 13)**
Major bushfires of Victoria by DSE, with links to maps and photos(Link now lost)
Implementing the government's response to the 2009 bushfires Royal Commission
2009 fires Royal Commission final report.
Account of the Streatham fires 12 feb 1977 by Colin McKenzie
Board of Inquiry into Fires of 12 Feb 1977 by Sir Esler Barber QC.
Report of 11 Jan 2005 Carranballac fire .**
You can help!
We are looking for firefighters! It is an interesting activity. You learn lots of skills. We would be pleased to hear from you.
Ring Malcolm: .55962207
We also need administrators. People to use phones, keep a record, update a map, monitor a radio, etc. You would be in the fire station and do not need to be active or fit.
Ring Chris: .55962014 mobile: .0408547015
Mingay fire station opening August 2011