http://www.fireproofshelters.com Fire Shelters | Fire Bunkers Fully Engineered Fire Shelters Victoria Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:03:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent survey revealed that a large number of people in Victoria were ignoring the fire safety warnings issued by the authorities. The reports compiled by Country Fire Authority (CFA), Emergency Services Commissioner (ESC) and RMIT University, showed that almost half of the people in the state’s highest fire risk ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/victorians-pay-less-attention-to-fire-warnings/ In Queensland the newly introduced Emergency Alert fire warning system through land phones and mobile phones have created a lot a trouble and panic among tourists and non residents. The warning system sends text messages to mobile phones and voice messages to land phones according to the billing address of ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/bushfire-warning-system-put-queensland-tourists-in-trouble/ The internet service around Western Australia was affected today because of a bushfire in and around a major electricity substation. The fire around Cannington Terminal Substation had caused the loss of four transmission lines. This caused about 6000 residents to loss their internet connections temporarily. A spokesman of the Fire ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/bushfire-causes-internet-link-to-break-in-western-australia/ The weather conditions in Victoria are threatening the public and the fire authorities to prepare for the difficult period. About 30000 fire fighters are there in Victoria who see the conditions as great challenge. At the same time threat from Arsonists is another concern that also needs to be dealt ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/victorian-fire-authorities-on-high-alert/ The Country Fire Services (CFS) has launched RSS feed services in their website to increase the availability and functionality of bushfire information. “Alerting the public to potential bushfire risks the day before, and of actual fire threats once a fire has started, is critical to give residents the information they need ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/rss-feeds-for-latest-bushfire-information/ The Country Fire Authority has reported on Monday Dec 28th, a small slow moving bushfire near the town Ruffy, about 175 kilometers north of Melbourne. The fire approximately seven hectares in size is slow moving towards northern sides. The residents in the nearby towns of Upton Hill, Creighton, Creightons Creek, ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/cfa-alerts-slow-moving-bushfire-through-victoria/ The people with hearing disabilities are deprived the benefit of the new telephone based fire warning system called emergency alert. Under the new system being introduced, text and voice messages are sent to the mobile phones and land phones in case there is any danger of a bushfire. Many people ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/the-phone-warning-system-not-reaching-the-disabled/ During a recent hearing, the lawyers assisting the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission proposed a safety rating for buildings in bushfire prone areas. The scheme would be in the model of star rating scheme for homes according to their energy efficiency, said Melinda Richards, counsel assisting the commission. The scheme would ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/safety-ratings-for-buildings-proposed/ The protection of people from a bushfire is a shared responsibility of the fire fighting agencies, community groups, emergency services and the government. The community has an important role in this respect to protect the members and to take necessary action to prepare for a bushfire survival plan. The authorities ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/neighborhood-safer-places-during-a-bushfire/ When fire surrounds the intensity of heat waves can travel very long distances and this result in radiant heat. It travels in straight lines radiating around from the source fire. The intensity or the magnitude of destruction of the radiant heat depends on the weather and wind speed of the ... http://www.fireproofshelters.com/bushfire-and-survival-from-radiant-heat/