Victorian ‘FireReady’ Map To Check Out…
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December 1, 2009Lane Burdett has sent us info about a new community project designed to keep Victorians up-to-date with fire news this summer.
A new website – created by Harshit Sekhon – uses live feeds from the CFA/MFB, Police and the Bureau of Meteorology to show graphically where fires are in Victoria at any given point in time. It also shows the wind direction and temperature etc.
Using Code Red Bushfire Information
After keying in your address you are shown ‘Where you are on the map’ then you’ll be able to locate the nearest Police Stations and see markers to indicate the latest available information provided by the CFA.
You’ll be able to locate and identify fires that are:
- ‘going on’
- ‘contained’
- ‘controlled’
- ‘safe’
Find Safety Zones
Three circles on the map will represent safety zones to let you know how soon an emergency service can reach if there’s a fire near you.
- A green circle shows the area within 10KM from the address entered
- An orange circle covers a 25KM radius
- A light red circle covers 45KM
For More Info
Contact Harshit Sekhon, email – hsekhon@hsekhon.com
This is a ‘work in progress’ and we’ll post more info about the project soon. Other fire-prone states could be interested too?
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Hi, Also check our http://www.19fire.com.au. On this site you can register to receive email and SMS messages telling you of Total fire ban days and more importantly to receive the same message that the firies receive on their pagers for any brigades you nominate, for the cost of the SMS messagae (ie 25 cents).
Also http://www.ewn.com.au/ which sends an SMS and email free telling you of any emergenecy alerts including storm, fire etc. Or the other one
http://michael.tyson.id.au/2008/11/13/firewatch-an-email-based-fire-warning-system/
which provides an sms and email notification of any CFA incidents within 15 kilometres of your home. You can adjust the size of the incident.
All of these have their limitations and drawbacks but they all add to our capacity to receive more information and put the pieces together to make better decisions.
Thanks Gail and Kate – some great links there. The CFA has been too slow to act on providing information in a modern and accessible format.
When you say “..uses live feeds from Police…” what does that actually mean? What information wil be provided?