Catastrophic fire conditions victoria and SA

[Cuppa]

The CFA app is great too. Put your address in the APP and set it up with a 10km radius to get warnings sms'd to you for any fires.

How do you set it up to get SMS warnings. I have it set up to send 'push notifications' to my Ipad, but can't see anywhere to put in a mobile phone number (non smartphone) for SMS warnings. Getting something on the phone would be real handy as it's with me all day, the ipad isn't. We live in the middle of one of the Black Saturday firegrounds.

Although well out in the bush at the top of the Strzleckis, we are pretty clear all around the house & are staying home.

Cuppa

[AB]

Sorry mate, not an actual sms to your phone but an sms (notification) from the app on your iphone/android device with the app installed on it.

[PMC]

Dry hot and northerly wind are a bad mix for disaster. Hopefully nothing eventuates out of this.
Stay vigilant and report anything you see that is a bit suss...anything!

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We all know what happened in 2009!



PLAN AND PREPARE
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/leave-early/

G'day Lounge Lizards,

To all of our fellow Patrol forum members and their families whom are in these Catastrophic fire locations today in Victoria and SA. Please take care!

Wishing you all a safe and fire-free day!

PS, I fought the Ash Wednesday bush-fires in 1983 when i was in the ARMY. Deployed to the Great ocean road area! My brother in-law is with the MFB in Melbourne! Good luck to all the fire-men and fire-women both full-time and the CFA volunteers. Be safe out there folks!

Regards,

Paul (RLI) & family

[Bloodyaussie]

I was down the Great Ocean Rd back when the Big one came through and it was very scary and surreal.. never want to go through that again!!!

I still feel guilt from the last fires as I was at a party and was sitting in a pool drunk off my head.....

[James_R]

Stay safe and vigilant fellow Patrollians. If you're gonna go, go early. If not make sure your property is prepared correctly and activate your bushfire survival plans. It's pretty humid but effin hot over on the East Coast today so fingers crossed the pager doesn't go off today!

[James_R]

I was down the Great Ocean Rd back when the Big one came through and it was very scary and surreal.. never want to go through that again!!!

I still feel guilt from the last fires as I was at a party and was sitting in a pool drunk off my head.....

I know the feeling BA. I was in Cowra NSW when the Black Saturday fires were occuring and being a former bush firey and a now retained firey I felt like shit the next morning waking up and realising what had happened the day before and I was partying on as if nothing had happened.

[jack]

Here is the CFA incident website for Vic: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-r...and-incidents/

Luckily I work from home and in a relatively save area. Just waiting for the grand kids to be dropped around as they live in the deep bush.
Stay safe everyone.

Cheers

[jack]

Just heard on the local ABC radio that there is an issue with the CFA website not loading the incidents, so please don't rely on it at the moment http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-r...and-incidents/

[AB]

Just heard on the local ABC radio that there is an issue with the CFA website not loading the incidents, so please don't rely on it at the moment http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-r...and-incidents/

I was wondering why nothing has popped up in the last hour or so....Great!!!...Probably got a million people on there trying to use it.

[Coldcomfort]

I hate this time of the year. We own a property in Yea Victoria. I am always wondering if that part of Victoria will burn again like in 2009??