Fuel Reduction Program
Fighting fire with fire
Resources
- Managing fuel for safer communities
- Bushfire in Tasmania – a new approach to reducing our Statewide relative risk
- Fire Management Area Committees
Fact Sheets
- What is fuel reduction burning?
- Smoke management
- The ecology of fuel reduction burning
- Smoke and your health
- Grapes and fuel reduction burning
- What is bushfire risk?
- How can a landowner get involved?
- What is bushfire fuel?
- Wildlife and fuel reduction burning?
- Fuel Reduction burning awareness for bushwalkers
- After the planned burn
Fire Protection Plans
Fire Protection Plans and their Executive Summaries are available from the State Fire Management Council website.http://www.sfmc.tas.gov.au/document-library
If you are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment, there are six ways of contacting emergency services.
If you find yourself in an emergency which is either life threatening or where time is critical, you can contact fire services, police or ambulance:
- By TTY – dial 106.
- By internet relay – and ask for triple zero (000).
- By captioned relay – and ask for triple zero (000).
- By SMS relay – text 0423 677 767.
- By video relay – login to Skype and contact one of the NRS contact names.
- By ordinary phone – dial 1800 555 727 and ask for triple zero (000).
further information
relayservice.gov.au/making-a-call/emergency-calls/ or relayservice.gov.au
Calls to 106 and 000 are FREE 24 hours a day, every day.
