Back in 2011, we wrote a blog article on Wye River’s award winning Fire Ready plan. The strategy was created by community volunteers because of the risk in living in an area surrounded by highly dense bushland. In our previous blog post, we mentioned that for the plan to work it needed to be thoroughly tested, and over the Christmas break of 2015, that is exactly what happened. On the 25th of December 2015 a blaze became out of control and unpredictable. The fire surrounding

Meteorologists have predicted that this summer will be one of the hottest and driest seasons yet. Emergency services pushed Victoria’s fire season forward by a month, prompted by predictions of extreme weather conditions. With warnings that nearly all states in Australia will potentially endure severe fire seasons, it is critical that you are prepared. From 2014-15 emergency services in Victoria responded to around 4,250 bush and grass fires – and that’s just for one state. D