Fire information

Great idea, here's a link for NSW ... RFS NSW fire locations
and a national look is at ... Current Fire Locations

OR , Sentinel Hotspot

Well worth bookmarking these!

Department of Emergency Services (WA) also do a warnings page at

http://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/alerts/Pages/default.aspx

These messages are directly out of the Incident Control Centre and are the official public notices associated with fires in WA.

For those on the road ABC broadcasts any fire warnings at quarter past and quarter to the hour. These. too, are based on information out of the Incident Control Centre.

Finally WA (like all states) has a State Emergency Warning (SEW) system which allows SMS messages to be broadcast to all mobile phones in a location. This system is based on the location of your phone and not your billing address. For example you live in NSW and are holidaying in WA with a fire in the area and the decision is made to release a SEW. If your phone is on and in range it will receive the message.

As I have a Samsung tablet (Android) I always check with the Vic Fire App, you can also use the Fireready App but I prefer the other..