If you live in Victoria, this is a new website, the best I have seen so far. It has every info you could hope for, fast and easy. Check it out, it is brilliant, the best next to my CFA Scanner.
http//emergencyvic.info/
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should have come up as a link? Have I done something wrong? Please explain, I'm not that clever with technology
M-L
http://emergencyvic.info/
M-L
M-L
Thanks M-L, Yes, and I have experimented and got the correct answer, change the 'vic' to 'nsw' to get the NSW site.
http://emergencynsw.info/
Curtis
Thanks for that, Araminta. I'm in SA so I typed "sa" over "vic" in the URL & lo & behold there's an Emergency Information site for SA, too. We now have sites for Country Fire Service, Incident Alert & Emergency Information. I'm wondering if there's an element of overkill here which is an emergency alert of itself!
I think it works for every state.
Curtis
It would be great if it worked for every State!
Sorry Curtishka, where do you live? To me there is nothing “haha” about this information. I have lived through the Ash Wednesday fires in Cockatoo in 1983, where the whole town burned down, and many people lost their lives. I got very, and I mean very close (5 minutes if the wind would have changed) to the Black Saturday fires, to me, the best possible information is VITAL. This website just might save people’s lives, there is NOTHING more important than getting the correct information as FAST as possible. Sorry to sound harsh, but this is very close to my heart, as I live in one of the highest fire danger rating areas in Victoria.
M-L
My apologies Curtishka if I sounded offensive or harsh, I was going to delete the post, but then again, it clearly shows you that even thirty years after Ash Wednesday, it's still very raw.
M-L
Sorry M-L,
I just meant about the state sites. I changed that comment so no one gets mistaken. As I said in NSW.
Im sorry to hear about those fires it is very devastating. Its sad that it happens anywhere and did it affect you last month (in January)? I remember you saying it was arsen.
Curtis
You don't have to be sorry, unless you have been that close to devastating fires, it might be hard to understand. I wasn't talking about anything last month, I was talking about Ash Wednesday in Cocktoo on the 16th of February 1983, when 307 buildings were destroyed and 6 people lost their lives, and the fire came to the neighbour's property, destroyed the shed, then the wind changed and we were spared. It means, I'm not scared of fires, I have seen what they can do.We have to be as prepared as possible. The Black Saturday fires came within 5 minutes of us if there would have been a wind change. It just means, we need the best , fastest and correct information we can get, to make informed decisions. And I think, so far this site is the best I have seen, I hope they will get a lot of positive feedback.
M-L
Araminta, I've had a couple of pokes around on Emergency Information today & it looks very good. Rather similar to Incident Alert but with added features such as rain radar, thunderstorm warnings, earthquakes & links to a SAPOL website where I can view who's wanted for what, where fatal accidents have occurred & road crash statistics. I thought at first it lacked the ability to get summary information on bush fires etc by hovering over map markers but I find I can get this information in a window simply by left clicking on the markers. Good stuff.