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Due to strong winds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph), the fire quickly spread leading to emergency warnings being issued in Bermagui and surrounding towns. By 5 October, the fire was largely brought after control after burning nearly 7,000 ha (17,300 acres) of bushland, destroying two homes, and fourteen outbuildings.
The existing Emergency Alert Australia system, established in 2009, [3] is a location-based SMS (LB-SMS) system [4] and can also call landlines with automated alerts. [3] The system was used in the 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires , with 492,938 landline calls and 4,194,576 text messages sent to residents in affected areas.
State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about Victorian bushfires from 1851 to the present. Country Fire Authority; Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning: Fire & emergencies; VicEmergency (Incidents and warnings)
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) implemented a total fire ban in Victoria for 15 December, with officials anticipating that extreme conditions would return to northwestern parts of the state on 16 December. CFA Chief Fire Officer Jason Heffernan emphasized the challenging conditions for firefighters and urged for citizens to not be complacent ...
Get weather and fire alerts via text: Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location. Fire updates: ∎ Firefighters finally made some headway on the Palisades Fire, which erupted Tuesday ...
The Standard Emergency Warning Signal (SEWS) is a warning siren used in Australia to alert the public of danger. The siren is played over radio, television or public address systems in public places to warn of bushfire , flood , cyclone , tsunami , earthquake or terrorist attack .
Get weather and fire alerts via text: Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location . ... Over 70,000 people are impacted by evacuation warnings or orders from the Eaton fire, he said, and ...
In Victoria, 210,000 hectares (520,000 acres) were burnt, 2,080 houses destroyed, more than 27,000 stock lost and 47 people lost their lives (CFA 2003a; DSE 2003b, 2003d). Property-related damage was estimated at over $200m and more than 16,000 fire fighters, 1,000 police and 500 defence personnel fought the fires in Victoria.