Community Fire Plan, DSE Planned Burns & Information

Department of Sustainability Planned Burns.

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.