Community Fire Plan, DSE Planned Burns & Information

Department of Sustainability Planned Burns.

Easter weekend likely to provide good weather for burning across Gippsland 

 Potential Smoke Impacts across Victoria – Easter Period

 

Smoke will be visible throughout Gippsland this Easter long weekend as the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and Parks Victoria take advantage of favourable conditions to conduct planned burns. 

 Tuesday 3rd April 2012

Please note two more large burns ignited in East Gippsland:

 

Bemm River - Oliver Track A: 2824 hectare fuel reduction burn, 13 kms north-west of Bemm River
Bemm River - Oliver Track B: 968 hectare ecological burn. 13 kms north-west of Bemm River.
Smoke will be visible in the Bemm River and Cann River areas.
The Old Coast Road between Cape Conran and Bemm River is closed for the duration of these burns.

 

Monday 2nd April 

Thursday 22nd March 2012 

 Wednesday 14th March 2012

Thursday 20th October 2011

Members of the Bairnsdale Field Naturalists Club, Bird Life East Gippsland and the Australian Native Plant society enjoyed a field day with DSE fire management staff on Tuesday September 27.

The day involved a trip to Mount Elizabeth, east of Tambo Crossing in East Gippsland to inspect burn monitoring sites and learn more about DSE’s burn monitoring program.  Media Release

Planned burns advice for East Gippsland Wednesday 3th August

 

Planning for more burns. Your input wanted.  DSE Media Release doc. 27th July 2011. 

 

Buchan Community Fire Plans are available at the Buchan Neighbourhood House.

The Neighbourhood House also operates a community phone tree during fire threat to keep the community up to date on fire information.

Fire information will also be posted to this website.

Go to the emergency services pages for related contact numbers and webpages.

 

For information on fires or planned burns in Victoria and general fire safety, please contact the Victorian Bushfire Information Line on freecall 1800 240 667.

Callers who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech/communication impairment may call textphone/telewriter (TTY) on 1800 122 969.

Information is also available at www.dse.vic.gov.au/fires 

Information about fire restrictions, fire bans and fires on private land at http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/

 

ABC Gippsland on Facebook is also a helpful site for fire information.

The Buchan Neighbourhood house will also post information on Facebook for fire information as this can be accessed by computer or by mobile phone.