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Plan for an Emergency

Plan for internet and phone outages

This guide will help you manage if you lose phone or internet services

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Making sense of BOM storm warnings

Ever wondered why your place didn't get much rain when the BOM forecasted severe weather for your area? Here are some answers, without the jargon.

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When severe weather threatens, this is what you should do

You've unplugged the modem and tied down the trampoline, so what else should you do now that the storm is here?

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You need to know about the AFDRS

The Australian Fire Danger Rating System gives you an idea of how dangerous a fire could be if one starts in your area. It's quite simple — and it could save your life.

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Recover your body and your garden: after a heatwave

It can take a few days to fully recover after a heatwave. Here are some tips for you (and your garden).

How to listen to ABC Radio in an emergency

Stay informed in an emergency. Set the local ABC radio station in your car, on ABC listen and on your battery-powered radio.

Illustration of a person listening to ABC radio while driving in dry bush. There's an Extreme Fire Danger Rating roadside sign.

Can I have a barbecue during a fire ban?

The rules around fire bans change depending where you live. Here's a quick guide to cooking fires, barbecues and using power tools when there's fire weather.

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Emergency Advice

ABC Radio Traveller's Guide

Print and pack this updated pocket guide to ABC radio frequencies around the country. Tune in to the local ABC station for emergency warnings.

Find emergency services where you are

Know which agency issues emergency alerts during events like bushfires, storms and cyclones in the state or territory where you live, or where you're travelling to.

Two firefighters, one from ACT Fire and Rescue and one from ACT Rural Fire Service look out at a smouldering fire.

Your mobile phone could help save your life. Here's how

Anyone could be caught in a disaster — and most of us carry something in our pocket that could help us stay safe, or even alive, when it strikes.

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Helping you recover after an emergency

After an emergency, get essential information to help you and your community recover.

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In the News

Man who burned shoebox of tax records fined for resulting bushfire

A Tasmanian man who lit a fire to burn tax documents in a shoebox, which then spread and destroyed two homes, has been convicted and fined.

A bushfire burning at Stieglitz near St Helens December 9, 2025.

Source: ABC Northern TasmaniaTopic: Courts

Historic lodge destroyed in blaze reopens after seven-year rebuild

Binna Burra Lodge was destroyed in a devastating 2019 bushfire that also claimed 11 homes in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Source: ABC Gold CoastTopic: Bushfires

Builder fined $150k after mother and baby injured in wall fall

A South Australian construction company has been fined $150,000 after a 30 tonne wall fell onto a neighbouring house and injured a mother and her baby.

Emergency workers surveying damage to a house.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Housing Construction Industry

Wild spring storm blankets NSW town in hail that looks like snow

The SES is cleaning up across northern NSW after a huge storm cell blanketed parts of the Mid North Coast with hail yesterday.

Hail covered the ground at the Wauchope Rural Centre.

Source: ABC Mid North CoastTopic: Storms

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