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  • Welcome!
  • coming events
  • Tourism
    • I Love Lismore
      • Postcard Art Event
    • Places to stay
    • Things to do
    • Places to see
    • Water tower art
    • Lake Tooliorook
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • Discovery Trail
    • Grimwade Park and pool
    • Lions' Club caravan park
    • Dorothy's Vintage Gown museum
  • History
    • Brief History
    • early streets
    • Place Names
    • Haunted gully
    • L.Tooliorook eBook
    • Soldier memorials
      • Memorials, settlements
    • Lives Lived
      • John Worrall 1925-2016
      • Roy Drake 1922 - 2015
      • Otto Gramms 1927-2016
      • Doug McLeod 1928-2013
      • Johnny Borysenko 1919 - 1924
      • Colin Bourke 1936-2021
      • Francis Baker 1913 - 1981
      • Brian Mitchell 1934 - 2022
      • Tony Street 1926 - 2022
    • Cemetery
  • Weather
    • Current weather
    • Coming weather
    • Past weather
  • Business
    • Lismore hotel
    • Ecostainable
    • Malcolm Marks, Horse shoer
    • BP Servo
    • The Birdcage cafe
    • Derrinallum Hotel Motel
    • Petals Plus Gallery
    • Wooltrack store
    • Lismore pharmacy
    • Fairway Coffee and Eatery
    • Business2
    • Business3
  • Photo albums
    • Early photos
    • Recent past events
  • Community Groups
    • Facebook Groups
    • Progress Association
    • Lismore Land Protection Group
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • DLCA History Group
      • History events to come
      • History events past
      • Items for sale
      • Collections
    • Men's Shed
      • Projects completed
      • Items for sale
    • Photography Group
    • CFA Brigade
      • Fire incident links
      • Local fire maps
      • View stubble burns.
      • Stubble permit application.
    • Craft Group
    • Lake Tooliorook angling club
  • Government, Utilities
    • Shire
      • Bin collecion days
    • SW Health
      • COVID-19
      • Defibrillator
    • Library Derrinallum.
    • State, Federal politicians
    • Wind farms
  • Notice board
    • Emergencies, times
    • Newsletters, media
  • Nature notes
    • Lismore geology
    • Meteorites
    • Frogs
    • Dying cyprus
    • Birds
    • Surveys of Nature
  • Useful links
    • Providence Gold and Minerals
    • Census results
    • Gathering Trail
  • Contact us, search
  • Site updates

Fire Incident Links
This is where you can find out more about the fire.
Look at each site now while you have the time. Bookmark sites you like.
"Contact us" if you for more suggestions.

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 Fire maps and details
 The link below maps all wildfires and emergencies.

https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/   
Local Stubble and Planned CFA burns
If you see smoke on a calm day it might be a stubble burn
Click here for a map of progress of all planned CFA burns in Victoria
Click here to see the latest list of local stubble burns
          
 Preparation:
How to get ready
CFA Public information home page. The official source.
www.cfa.vic.gov.au/home

Lismore Emergency Plan    Designed for our town by our people. (A copy is at the bottom of this page)
Click here to download the latest version.

Shire Strategic Fire management Plan gives
CFA Plan and prepare pages. Lots of good tips. PREPARE EARLY!
https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare

Leave early or stay and defend?
Click here to help decide. Gripping Four Corners program "Black Summer" 49 mins.

   Weather:      Now, and into the future.
Official weather. Mortlake aerodrome. Official Bureau of Meteorology 1/2 hour data here.
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94840.shtml

Weatherzone gives figures now and predicts the future weather for 7 days.
www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/south-west/lismore

A norwegian weather site does the same for 9 days, or by the hour.
https://www.yr.no/place/Australia/Victoria/Mortlake/

Windy give lots of information including lightning strikes. Very versatile. Explore....
https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?temp,-37.645,143.873,9

Meteye gives wind and temperature into the future. Simpler than Windy.
www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/?loc=TAS_FA001
   What is happening? Fire radio  
The official fire updates are ABC 594 AM, ABC 774 AM, ABC FM 107.9 FM, ACE 1134 AM.
www.abc.net.au/news/emergency

EMV information page. Has official media releases, warnings. Mapping may be delayed.
http://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
Phone app: Vic Emergency. Ditto. Download it now and set it up.

Vicroads (works and closures) https://traffic.vicroads.vic.gov.au/

Listen to emergency callout radio live. Plays callout channels, (not fireground channels).
www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/19010
Phone app: Broadcastify. (This uses lots of data so you need an unlimited phone plan)

Scanning radios: You can buy a scanner to listen to all emergency radio channels. Pricey!!
Click here for example  Uniden UBCD436-PT $750 on ebay. Expensive and difficult to use.

       Social Media:
EMV facebook. Official releases. They may start a separate page for a big fire.
https://www.facebook.com/vicemergency/

EMV twitter. Official releases. Continually updated with links and maps.
https://twitter.com/vicemergency/

Corangamite Shire facebook. Very good for the recovery stage of a fire.
https://www.facebook.com/CorangamiteShire/

Shire twitter page. May be useful for the tweets from the public.
twitter.com/corangamitesc

Lismore CFA Group facebook. Not official. May have faster information, and from several sources.
https://www.facebook.com/CFALismoreGroup1

Mount Elephant firecam facebook. Photos of local fires from the summit.
Not official. May be delayed.
https://www.facebook.com/Firecam-Mount-Elephant-287240355457384/

      Eye in the Sky.                                                                                   
Satellite tracking: Maybe 12 hrs delay. Shows the hot spots.
NASA EODIS worldview. Can select which satellites to use. maybe 12 hrs delay.
worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

NASA FIRMS (Fire Information Resource Tracking System)  Very versatile. Explore it.
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Firewatch hotspots (Simple to use. Maybe 12 hours delay. )
https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.html

Sentinel hotspots.
Simple. Maybe 12 hrs delay, but accurate.
https://hotspots.dea.ga.gov.au/acres/sentinel/kml_data.shtml


        Behaviour Prediction:                                                           
How dangerous? (On a bad day a grassfire may travel at 8 - 10 km per hour, with flames about 3 times the height of the fuel).
Grassland Fire Danger Index calculator. You enter the numbers to get rate of spread, etc.
(The numbers to enter are on the mortlake aerodrome site above.)
https://gympieweather.com/mcarthur5.htm
          Phone Numbers
Police, Fire , Ambulance.    000 or 112
(You will be asked for the street number and nearest cross-street. Also your phone number).
Vic Emergency Hotline        1800 240 667
State Emergency Service    132 500
24 Hour Nurse On Call         1300 606 024
Police Assistance                 13 14 44
Road Closures                       13 11 70   (business hours)
Corangamite Shire                55937 100
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  • Welcome!
  • coming events
  • Tourism
    • I Love Lismore
      • Postcard Art Event
    • Places to stay
    • Things to do
    • Places to see
    • Water tower art
    • Lake Tooliorook
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • Discovery Trail
    • Grimwade Park and pool
    • Lions' Club caravan park
    • Dorothy's Vintage Gown museum
  • History
    • Brief History
    • early streets
    • Place Names
    • Haunted gully
    • L.Tooliorook eBook
    • Soldier memorials
      • Memorials, settlements
    • Lives Lived
      • John Worrall 1925-2016
      • Roy Drake 1922 - 2015
      • Otto Gramms 1927-2016
      • Doug McLeod 1928-2013
      • Johnny Borysenko 1919 - 1924
      • Colin Bourke 1936-2021
      • Francis Baker 1913 - 1981
      • Brian Mitchell 1934 - 2022
      • Tony Street 1926 - 2022
    • Cemetery
  • Weather
    • Current weather
    • Coming weather
    • Past weather
  • Business
    • Lismore hotel
    • Ecostainable
    • Malcolm Marks, Horse shoer
    • BP Servo
    • The Birdcage cafe
    • Derrinallum Hotel Motel
    • Petals Plus Gallery
    • Wooltrack store
    • Lismore pharmacy
    • Fairway Coffee and Eatery
    • Business2
    • Business3
  • Photo albums
    • Early photos
    • Recent past events
  • Community Groups
    • Facebook Groups
    • Progress Association
    • Lismore Land Protection Group
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • DLCA History Group
      • History events to come
      • History events past
      • Items for sale
      • Collections
    • Men's Shed
      • Projects completed
      • Items for sale
    • Photography Group
    • CFA Brigade
      • Fire incident links
      • Local fire maps
      • View stubble burns.
      • Stubble permit application.
    • Craft Group
    • Lake Tooliorook angling club
  • Government, Utilities
    • Shire
      • Bin collecion days
    • SW Health
      • COVID-19
      • Defibrillator
    • Library Derrinallum.
    • State, Federal politicians
    • Wind farms
  • Notice board
    • Emergencies, times
    • Newsletters, media
  • Nature notes
    • Lismore geology
    • Meteorites
    • Frogs
    • Dying cyprus
    • Birds
    • Surveys of Nature
  • Useful links
    • Providence Gold and Minerals
    • Census results
    • Gathering Trail
  • Contact us, search
  • Site updates