Links

NSW Rural Fire Service sites

• NSW Rural Fire Service Home Page The site for the main headquarters of NSW RFS contains a great deal of information on current issues, fire safety, government policy and legal matters. Written reports on various matters can be downloaded as Acrobat files.
• Yarrowlumla/Queanbeyan Rural Fire Service Our local Fire Control provides information on fire matters at a local level.
• Unofficial Southern Region NSW "Rural Fire Service Association" Page A plain vanilla link page that hooks up to some material highly relevant to our firefighting personnel. News releases, various fire services, media releases, fire legislation and links to some hefty reports in .pdf (Acrobat) format on enquiries and government matters. For the thinking fiery.

Other Rural Fire Brigades

• The Australian Firefighter Page It is amazing how many rural fire brigades are on the web, and I thought that we were pretty quick off the mark. Rather than me listing them all, try this site which purports to have a complete listing. I have told them about us.

Fiery Discussions

• Firebreak An informative site on bushfire safety, bushfire behaviour and weather and the history of bushfires in the ACT. We get a mention here as bushfires do not recognise state boundaries.
• Nature Conservation Council Bush Fire Program This elucidates the policies of the organization on burning regimes and other fire control matters.
• Bushfire 99 Conference The complete proceedings and papers presented at a conference at Charles Sturt University on bushfires and fire control. There is a diversity of interesting reading here.
• Blue Mountains Conservation Society: Living near the Bush A discussion of fire safety from a region where it has particular relevance, being a somewhat combustible spot.

Other Institutions

• Bureau of Meteorology This section gives weather information for NSW and the ACT.
• NSW State Emergency Service The home page for our comrades in arms in the emergency services
• NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service This institutional site includes fire control information.
• NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation Another government institution which includes fire control among its concerns.

Fire Links and Communication

• Firenet This site, based at the ANU Forestry Department, has a large array of links to fire related sites. It also offers the opportunity to subscribe to email discussion lists on fire matters. A good place to start a bit of cyber fire research.