Hawkesbury Highlands has an extensive network of fire trails in National Parks and across private property. There are approximately 1.3 million properties on bush fire prone land in NSW and to assist with containing and managing fires across the landscape,...

Bilpin Hall is an essential community infrastructure as it: a) is a district hall servicing the needs of not only Bilpin but surrounding communities of Mt Lagoon, Mt Tootie, Mt Tomah, Berambing and Kurrajong Heights b) the hall is in use daily by a wide variety of...

In the first edition of the Hawkesbury Highlands Bilpin RFS President claimed that along with Bilpin Regional Action Group (BRAG) and the Bilpin Hall Committee, organizations which work closely together, their views represent ten percent of the population. So, what...

Hawkesbury Council Community Recovery Co-ordinator Liz Murphy organised a community dinner for bushfire survivors at Chapel Hill Berambing and flew in Victorian disaster expert Dr Rob Gordon to speak at the event. 38 people attended the event of which about 30 were...

People driving on BLOR past Bilpin Cider will catch a view of the Aboriginal flag flying next to the Australian flag at the entrance to the Cellar Door. This is the first business to fly the First Nation people’s flag in the Highlands and it has sparked discussion...

I could quote the statistics – 18,600,000 hectares burned, 5,900 buildings destroyed, 34 lives lost, 1,000,000,000 animals killed. I could tell you about better building practices – strengthened BAL40 guidelines, a revised National Construction Code, new and improved...

Residents whose homes were burnt when a backburn lit by the Rural Fire Service at Mt Wilson got out of control have failed in a bid for more details on an internal report into the incident. The Mt Wilson RFS Backburn Survivors Group sought information on the report...