Category: Bushfires
lake conjola…did the warnings fail?
Residents of the seaside town of Lake Conjola, in NSW, have told ABC 730 that they did not receive...
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Improvements needed to safeguard vulnerable people facing natural and man made hazards.
Submission to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with...
Read MoreLeave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Part three)
The United Nations has a phrase we all need to get used too: ”..leave no-one behind.” How important is that for emergency agencies issuing warnings? It’s a phrase heard frequently at UN meetings around the...
Read MoreResearch reinforces what we know about warnings
New research undertaken in Australia relating to bushfires is repeatedly showing that what we know about human behaviour in bushfires isn’t changing. Funny that. Dr Rob Gordon says we use the “reptilian brain”...
Read MoreTen years of “emergency broadcasting” in Victoria – now what?
My professional position is as the Manager of Emergency Broadcasting and Community Development for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio division. It was my delight to be able to attend on Friday March 28 an event...
Read MoreAll I had was the radio – the need for radio when the power fails
Rachael Mead lives at Lobethal Road, Basket Range in the low hills outside Adelaide, in South Australia. Her husband was on a Country FIre Service volunteer truck during the unseasonal “Cherryville” bushfire which...
Read MoreWarning sirens to be enhanced in Victoria
(I changed this post 18/12/12) to reflect correspondence from the Victorian Fire Commssioner’s office. ) The Victorian Government in Australia has announced a pilot program to establish sirens in some bushfire prone...
Read MoreThe tale of two warnings
At the time of writing there are two fires causing authorities some headaches. Overnight it appears about 30 members of the fishing village at Musselroe Bay in North Eastern Tasmania evacuated themselves to the local boat ramp...
Read MoreThe Pink Firetruck
Fire fighters at Victoria, British Columbia, got into the spirit of Breast cancer awareness month and changed the colour of their main pumper. The truck will remain pink for just a month. Some of the crew wear pink t shirts...
Read MoreBushfire evacuation
Evacuations from hazardous areas are a standard part of the tool kit of the US emergency manager.The protocols vary from place to place, and they are still ironing out some of the problems in some areas. It doesn’t appear...
Read MoreEmergency broadcasting
Emergency broadcasting began a few hours late in the day of January 21, 1997. Homes in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges were burning, but there was no adequate and useful advice for residents confronted by the advancing...
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