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Title: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: camperd4d on January 07, 2013, 10:55:30 PM: any of you guys getting these alerts now???????.

http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_more_info.cfm?CON_ID=19594&CAT_ID=684 (http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_more_info.cfm?CON_ID=19594&CAT_ID=684)
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: Kit_e_kat9 on January 07, 2013, 10:59:59 PM: Translation:

Major Fire Updates

Emergency Alert Telephone warning message for Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Ranges. 07/01/13 2
Posted: 07/01/2013

Tonight an emergency alert telephone warning message has been sent to the areas of the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and the Southern Ranges.

If you have received this message you are in an area that is forecast to have Catastrophic Fire Danger on Tuesday 8 January 2013.

For your survival, leaving early is the safest option. Leaving a bush fire prone area tonight or early tomorrow morning is recommended.

Make a decision about when you will leave, where you will go and how you will get there. Homes are not designed to withstand fires in catastrophic conditions.

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Go Here (http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_TOBAN_HTML.cfm) to make sense of the map.

According to the news there are 99 fires currently firing in NSW with 20 now out of control.

Kit_e
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: dazzler on January 08, 2013, 07:12:23 AM: Make a decision about when you will leave, where you will go and how you will get there. Homes are not designed to withstand fires in catastrophic conditions

Lets hope this seeks in. Family is more important than anything material. But watch, just like here in Tas, the bewildered residents will stand in front of cameras saying "it just came so fast, it was like a freight train........'

Be safe swaggers.
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: MDSimpson on January 08, 2013, 08:01:52 AM: Yes, I got that last night.

I also have an app on my iphone called "Fires Near Me" provided by the RFS, to keep an eye on what is happening. Listening to the wind outside my office, if there is a spark, it will be terrible. Not sure how hot it is yet, inside with air on, and blinds closed...

All NSW National Parks are closed today.

Stay Safe travellers..
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: achjimmy on January 08, 2013, 08:22:21 AM: Surely they are not expecting all the residents to vacate the region now?
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: areyonga on January 08, 2013, 08:25:52 AM: Got mine on the mobile and the house phone, its good to know the system works

Trevor
Title: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: Toy pradopetty on January 08, 2013, 08:45:48 AM: In total I got 6 consecutive messages within half hour last night for the Illawarra Region and. 1 landline phone message just before midnight. Obviously the system works but needs to be adjusted to only send. 1 or 2 messages not 6 to all mobile phones. At least they doing something I Spose. Stay safe all
Cheers
Frank
Title: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: dazzler on January 08, 2013, 09:46:27 AM: Quote from: achjimmy on January 08, 2013, 08:22:21 AM
Surely they are not expecting all the residents to vacate the region now?

They advise the following;

Implement your bushfire plan now.
Monitor fire and weather at rfs and bom.
Leaving is the safest option.
The main thing is that you leave once a fire starts nearby and understand and accept that you can't protect your property when it's catostrophic.

Be safe.
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: DannyG on January 08, 2013, 10:00:40 AM: We have relos staying with us down here (tassie) and they got an sms last night too.......they live in suburbia Albion Park Rail!

Yet we have other relo's who live down the coast in the bush closer to the danger and we are having to tell her to take the warning serious and get her gear and leave. She isnt taking it serious because they also sent the same message to all her friends up the coast who are not in danger.
Title: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: Toy pradopetty on January 08, 2013, 10:04:09 AM: Quote from: DannyG on January 08, 2013, 10:00:40 AM
We have relos staying with us down here (tassie) and they got an sms last night too.......they live in suburbia Albion Park Rail!

Yet we have other relo's who live down the coast in the bush closer to the danger and we are having to tell her to take the warning serious and get her gear and leave. She isnt taking it serious because they also sent the same message to all her friends up the coast who are not in danger.
Not good. Hope she listens to the news
Cheers
Frank
Title: Re: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: MDSimpson on January 08, 2013, 04:56:22 PM: I dont live in the area, and I got the message. Maybe they snagged my phone number while working down there recently.
I stayed at a hotel in Wollongong a few nights, I don't really care where it came from, I'd prefer to get it than not....
Title: NSW FIRE SERVICE ALERTS NOW...........????
Post by: Fun Police on January 08, 2013, 07:24:29 PM: Just got a text from our friends at Bendalong, they've been evacced to Ulladulla but had to leave their CT at the park.