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Places of last resort – Neighbourhood Safer Places (NSP)
According to NSW RFS Neighbourhood Safer Places (NSP) are a place of last resort during a bush fire emergency. You should be aware of any Neighbourhood Safer Places in your area and note them in your bush fire survival plan. You can use the RFS App to locate your...
Bilpin is scarred by black summer’s ‘atom bomb’ bushfire – and some fear lessons have not been learned
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/17/summer-bushfires-australia-bilpin-rural-fire-service-blue-mountains
4 years and $40 million in government disaster funding
Hawkesbury still lacks essential firefighting infrastructure.After four years and $40 million in government disaster funding, Hawkesbury is still missing essential firefighting infrastructure as its first real fire season since the Black Summer of 2019 approaches.On...
Bells Line of Road Aims to Shine as Premier Tourist Destination
Click link to view article https://hawkesburypost.com.au/bells-line-of-road-aims-to-shine-as-premier-tourist-destination/
Push for more ‘resilient’ houses to cope with future climate, as ‘we’re all footing the bill’ anyway
Three years after Greg Webb's family home of more than 50 years burnt down in a Black Summer blaze, his new house is starting to take shape on his hillside block in Lake Conjola, on the southern coast of NSW. But it's no ordinary build. Mr Webb has planned for this...
BELLS LINE ROAD BUSINESS COUNCIL NETWORKING MEETING – Rescheduled
The next BLOR Business networking meeting was being held on Tuesday 20 June 2023 has been RESCHEDULED to Tuesday the 4th July at 6pm at the Archibald Hotel Kurrajong Heights. Come along and hear what’s going on for businesses in our local area and have your say on how...
PLACE PLANS for everywhere but KURRAJONG HEIGHTS
“Hawkesbury Towns and Villages Place Plans” is on exhibition for public comment until Wednesday 21 June 2023. The report identifies 9 villages in the Hawkesbury and provides a description and mud map of what village centres are projected to become. North Richmond,...
NSW Special Coronial Inquiry into Black Summer Bushfires Mt Wilson Escaped RFS Backburn case study.
WHAT HAPPENED IN COURT? After gathering evidence from all the bushfires across NSW during the Black Summer of 2019/20 the NSW Special Coronial Inquiry narrowed down matters for this hearing to investigation to RFS backburning practices, the issuing of warnings about...
SPECIAL EDITION NEWSLETTER Issue 2
To view and download the SPECIAL EDITION Hawkesbury Highlands Community Newsletter Issue 2. Click Here
