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Plan for an Emergency

Disability and disaster — a guide to help you plan and stay safe

If you are one of the 5.5 million Australians living with a disability, you are potentially more vulnerable to disaster risk. Use this guide and start your emergency planning now.

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Caring for your baby when there's an emergency

This guide offers practical emergency advice for parents and carers of infants.

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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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How to listen to ABC Radio in an emergency

Stay informed in an emergency, set your local ABC radio station in the ABC listen app, and find the frequency on your battery-powered radio.

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What to do if there's a bushfire in your area

If there's a bushfire warning for your area, follow your bushfire survival plan. Remember, it's always safest to leave early.

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You're on holiday and there's a bushfire nearby. Do you know what you will do?

It's important to stay up to date with weather conditions and the fire danger ratings for the area you'll be travelling to. Keep your car radio tuned to the local ABC radio station for important information.

Large plumes of smoke from a bushfire rise over the town of Dunsborough, with the beach and ocean in the foreground.

Staying safe when the power goes out in a bushfire

Electricity supply is often affected by disasters and in the immediate aftermath the conditions can be very dangerous. Here's some advice on how to stay safe if you lose power during a fire emergency.

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Emergency Advice

Stay connected with the #ReadyTogether toolkit

When emergency strikes, staying connected to your neighbours and community can make a difference. The ABC and Australian Red Cross have created this digital guide to help you and your community get ready for emergencies.

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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.

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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

'Had to watch it burn': Home destroyed as bushfires flare in Tasmania

A shack has burnt down in a bushfire in Dolphin Sands on Tasmania's east coast, where residents are currently being warned it is too late to leave.

A home alight on a sandy bank as fire burns.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Bushfires

Volunteer firefighter sentenced for intentionally starting SA bushfire

An 18-year-old who had been a cadet captain in the Country Fire Service admits deliberately lighting a bushfire near Naracoorte, but mental health conditions lower the sentence he might otherwise have been given.

A fire truck roof in the foreground with fires around at night

Source: ABC South East SATopic: Arson

Was your car one of 40,000 damaged in hailstorms? Here's what to do next

Insurers are urging those with damaged cars to make their claims as soon as possible in the aftermath of hailstorms across Queensland and parts of New South Wales.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Insurance

Arson investigators find ignition point of WA bushfire that razed home

Police offer up a $25,000 reward as they try to determine the cause of a blaze that tore through 160 hectares of land, left two homes uninhabitable and completely destroyed another in Geraldton.

Smoke rises from burnt-out bushland next to a road bridge.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Bushfires