Street Meet: Bushfire Ready Group (Gooseberry Hill)

The City of Kalamunda is uniquely placed in the Darling Ranges, with the region being renowned for its beautiful Jarrah and Marri forests, walking trails and native flora and fauna. The natural beauty of the region however, significantly increases the area’s risk to bushfire. Bushfires have the capacity to strike without warning and provided with the right environmental conditions, can quickly exceed firefighting resources, devastating community, properties, and infrastructure, while posing great risk to the loss of human life.

It is for this reason, that it is imperative that both the wider community and individual households are supported in engaged in bushfire preparedness, awareness and survival planning. If you’ve not yet joined your local Bushfire Ready Group we encourage you to do so! Bushfire Ready is a local community action program aimed at encouraging local residents to work together in preparing and protecting their families and properties against bushfires.

The next Bushfire Ready Group Street Meet is being held on:

🎫 Street Meet – Bushfire Ready Group in Gooseberry Hill
📅 Saturday, 1 October 2022
 📍 Ledger Road Reserve, Gooseberry Hill
⏰ 9.30 – 11.30am
  ℹ️  Are you Bushfire Ready? Come along to meet our Bushfire Ready Group to learn about keeping safe in this area.

 The benefits of joining a Bushfire Ready group include:

• 🔥 Increasing your understanding of bushfire risk around homes, streets and the immediate surrounding bush             land in your area
• 🔥 Support for developing your own Bushfire Survival Plan
• 🔥 Opportunities for meeting neighbours to develop support networks that may be needed in a bushfire       emergency
• 🔥 Learning about bushfire behaviour
• 🔥 Reducing the cost that bushfire has on life, property and the environment
• 🔥 Developing realistic expectations of the capabilities and limits of emergency services during a bush fire
• 🔥 Finding out where and how to access information during a bush fire
  

How can you get involved in your local Bushfire Ready group? Bushfire Ready Groups are already operating in several areas. To find out if your area has a Bushfire Ready Group or to form a group in your local area contact the DFES Community Engagement Team on:

T: 9395 9816
E: CommunityEngagement@dfes.wa.gov.au
W: www.dfes.wa.gov.au