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NSW & ACT specific bushwalking discussion. Please avoid publishing details of access to sensitive areas with no tracks.Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Mon 07 Jan, 2013 4:36 pm
UPDATE - NSW statewide fire ban continues into Wednesday.
A warning, from midnight 7th January, the whole of NSW will be a total fire ban.
Words as strong as "DO NOT BE IN A BUSHFIRE PRONE AREA TOMORROW".
Premier states possibly worst fire risk day ever in the state.
Further details HERE (check the video).
All parks are closed as per this topic.
Take care, people.
A warning, from midnight 7th January, the whole of NSW will be a total fire ban.
Words as strong as "DO NOT BE IN A BUSHFIRE PRONE AREA TOMORROW".
Premier states possibly worst fire risk day ever in the state.
Further details HERE (check the video).
All parks are closed as per this topic.
Take care, people.
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Mon 07 Jan, 2013 10:27 pm
Received following message on my mobile a little while ago:
Wow, is every one getting these messages?
"Catastrophic Fire Danger tomorrow for Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Ranges. Not being in a bush fire prone area is the safest option"
http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au
Wow, is every one getting these messages?
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Tue 08 Jan, 2013 7:42 am
Melinda, that message has gone out to every single mobile phone in the three areas of the state facing "Catastrophic" fire danger -- the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Ranges.
It is actually one of the really exciting innovations that has occurred in recent years. They don't need to know who you are or where you live, they can simply send the message to every phone currently in a geographic area. It can be more localised too, so if there are serious fires today, people expected to be in their path will receive notifications. This means people who may not be listening to the radio or monitoring the web are still kept in the loop of developing risks. I am pretty sure they also have some sort of auto-call system that rings landlines with a voice message in an emergency.
It is actually one of the really exciting innovations that has occurred in recent years. They don't need to know who you are or where you live, they can simply send the message to every phone currently in a geographic area. It can be more localised too, so if there are serious fires today, people expected to be in their path will receive notifications. This means people who may not be listening to the radio or monitoring the web are still kept in the loop of developing risks. I am pretty sure they also have some sort of auto-call system that rings landlines with a voice message in an emergency.
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Tue 08 Jan, 2013 3:01 pm
Yep I got the message to mobile & landline
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Tue 08 Jan, 2013 4:08 pm
UPDATE - NSW statewide fire ban continues into Wednesday.
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Tue 08 Jan, 2013 4:57 pm
The fire ban has been extended but it looks like National Parks will be open tomorrow.
Dave
Dave
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Tue 08 Jan, 2013 10:25 pm
Lizzy wrote:Yep I got the message to mobile & landline
I got it on my mobile
We got the message on our home landline
Hubby got it on his mobile directly
Then he got it from one of his clinics (diverted to his mobile after hours)
Then he got it from the backline diverted
Then he got it from his second clinic
Then he got it from his second clinic backline
Then we started to get them again as we hadn't directly checked the message and noted it as 'read' .......
Stay safe everyone
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Wed 09 Jan, 2013 7:29 am
Makes me angry, when I see fools throwing out there ciggerates as there driving, the trail of sparks left behind is more than enough to start a fire.
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Wed 09 Jan, 2013 2:20 pm
Phillipsart wrote:Makes me angry, when I see fools throwing out there ciggerates as there driving, the trail of sparks left behind is more than enough to start a fire.
Yep I would like to send an automatic rocket at any car that does this
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Wed 09 Jan, 2013 4:12 pm
DaveNoble wrote:The fire ban has been extended but it looks like National Parks will be open tomorrow.
Dave
Just checked again - Blue Mts and Gardens of Stone are open, but Wollemi NP is still closed till Monday 14th
Dave
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Wed 09 Jan, 2013 4:37 pm
DaveNoble wrote:Just checked again - Blue Mts and Gardens of Stone are open, but Wollemi NP is still closed till Monday 14th
My heart missed a beat when I saw your message, given I'm heading off for four days of canyoning from Friday. Thankfully a quick check of the map and I'm all good. I forgot how far north the Wollemi NP starts on the Newnes Plateau. I'll never complain about those odd boundaries again!!!
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Wed 09 Jan, 2013 10:19 pm
This was posted by a NPWS employee (and canyoner) on the oz.canyons list -
Good news
Dave
I just checked with the fire operations at NPWS Blackheath.
Wollemi National Park is NOT closed.
The website will be fixed (the 'ends Monday' is an error)
All parks in the Blue Mountains area are CURRENTLY open.
Good news
Dave
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Thu 10 Jan, 2013 12:52 pm
We walked out of the Budawangs at Sassafras on Monday arvo after a HOT 3 day walk, there was a note from NPWS on the car saying the park would be closed from midnight, which of course we wouldn't have got if we'd been out for longer! Very glad we weren't walking out on Tuesday tho' would have been insanely hot and scary as I'm sure we'd have been getting wiffs of the smoke from the Dean's Gap fire, plus would have had to get back to Wollongong the long way via Braidwood and Goulburn with the Turpentine road closed due to the fire!
Re: Off the scale fire risk for NSW for Tue 8/1/2013
Thu 10 Jan, 2013 6:36 pm
The current message on NPWS / Environment NSW site currently states:
ALL TRACKS AND TRAILS CLOSED FOR WALKING, HORSE-RIDING AND CYCLING FROM FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY TO MONDAY 14 JANUARY
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/natio ... osure.aspx
If you go to the individual park pages though, there doesn't appear to be any closures between Friday and Monday.
ALL TRACKS AND TRAILS CLOSED FOR WALKING, HORSE-RIDING AND CYCLING FROM FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY TO MONDAY 14 JANUARY
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/natio ... osure.aspx
If you go to the individual park pages though, there doesn't appear to be any closures between Friday and Monday.
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