Step 3: Prepare your home for bushfire

MidCoast Council

While we stay at home this week, there’s never been a better time to make sure you Get Ready for Bushfire, following our five step series to ensure your home has a bushfire survival plan and is prepared for bushfire danger season.

Once you have your Get Ready for bushfire plan in place this year, MidCoast Council is asking you to register online.

“We’d like to get a picture of how many MidCoast households have a Get Ready for bushfire plan in place, and which parts of the region are well prepared for bushfire this year,” said Mayor David West.

Visit MidCoast’s Get Ready page at haveyoursay.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/getready and register your plan – it takes 30 seconds.

Over the last two weeks, we’ve helped you identify the bushfire risk for your property, and put together a bushfire survival plan – so that everyone in your home knows what you will do and where you will go in a bushfire emergency.

This week, it’s checklist time – there’s a list of things to do to prepare your home and your yard before a bushfire threatens.

And if you’re on a farm or large property – there’s a checklist for you too.

“A well prepared home is easier to defend against fire, and it’s safer for you and for our volunteer firefighters,” MidCoast Council’s Mayor David West explained.

“Get started by heading to the website and find the ‘Step 3’ information plus the Bushfire Survival Plan document. You’ll find the NSW RFS Get ready videos there – for preparing your home, your yard and your rural property. The Plan has a checklist for preparing your home and yard.”

If you can’t physically do the work yourself, please don’t hesitate to ask your family, friends or engage a service to help you. And if you have limited support from these sources, then the NSW RFS’s AIDER service may be able to help you.

There’s information at rfs.nsw.gov.au

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