The Loop 5 April 2023

SES: Sudden Storms – Stay Safe

This storm is a reminder to communities that early preparation is the best defence against storm damage.

Here are some steps you can take before a storm event, to protect yourself from its impact:

  • Maintain your yard and balcony. Secure or store items that could blow around in strong winds. Strong winds can pick up even large items such as outdoor furniture, trampolines and roofing iron causing damage to windows, roofs and cars.
  • Clean your gutters, down pipes and drains regularly to prevent blockages. Blockages can cause the water to overflow under the eaves into the roof cavity.
  • Trim trees and branches that could potentially fall on your home or property.
  • Fix any damage to your roof, including broken or missing tiles.
  • Check your insurance policy is current and adequate.
  • Make a Home Emergency Plan for your family that outlines what you would do in an emergency. Consider where you’ll go and how you’ll get in contact with each other along with any special circumstances or considerations for your household.
  • Prepare an emergency kit with essential items in case you lose power or need to leave home in an emergency
  • Listen to your local emergency broadcaster, or check the Bureau of Meterology and VicEmergency app for weather warnings.
  • Find out more information via the SES website – Storms – Plan and stay safe

When to call VICSES:

CFA: Fire Danger Period ending

The Fire Danger Period is ending in ALPINE and Alpine Resorts, Falls Creek and Mount Hotham

To end at 0100 hours on Monday 03 April 2023. See the full list and maps: www.cfa.vic.gov.au/firedangerperiod

CFA: When you put your clocks back remember to check your smoke alarms too.

It’s easy – it only takes a few minutes and could save your life.

Press the test button and wait for the beeping sound. Then, every month, keep testing, vacuuming, and dusting your alarms to make sure they’re performing.

Is your smoke alarm more than 10 years old? Then it’s time to replace it!

CFA has attended more than 14,000 house fires over the past ten years. We don’t want your home to be one of them.

House fires can happen to anyone, any time. Only working smoke alarms save lives.

https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/fires-in-t…

Forest Fire Management (FFM): Update No 7 of the Ovens District planned burning program.

To date, three fuel reduction burns have been ignited within the Ovens District.

  • 02/03/2023 Tawonga – German Creek
  • 21/03/2023 Glen Creek – Greys Boundary Track
  • 15/03/2023 Mt Beauty – Survey Track (15ha treated of 134ha)

All of these burns are now at safe status.

The weather we are currently experiencing does not support burn delivery. Fuel within burns is now saturated and may not dry out before winter.

We will require a significant drying period to see fuels within burns treatable. If this occurs, we will recommence fuel moisture assessments on all burns remaining on our program:

  • Beechworth – Gorge Road Eurobin – Eurobin Gap Track
  • Beechworth – Lady Newton Drive Kancoona South – Gluepot Track West
  • Bright – Morgans Creek Leneva – Baranduda Range Track
  • Bruarong – Bruarong Spur Track Mount Beauty – Mount Emu
  • Buffalo River – Joe Cook Road Mount Beauty – Survey Track
  • Carboor – Bungamero Finger Mount Buffalo – Chalet surrounds
  • Carboor Upper – Pettifers Road Mount Buffalo – Parks Office
  • Cheshunt – Carsons Track Selwyn – Humffray River
  • Cheshunt South – King River Staghorn Flat – Mt Murramurrangbong Track
  • Cheshunt South – Evans Creek Stanley – Tully Track
  • Coral Bank – Junction Creek Whitlands – Transmission Lines
  • Dederang – House Creek Wooragee – Pilot Track