Be Prepared Kit

Items to take, or things to do before a fire is near your house or business:

Back up the following items on to the cloud, send an email to yourself, copy to a USB hard drive:

. treasured photos
. birth certificates
. house insurance photos – always have a photo of what your house once looked like and the contents inside of your house and keep sake items
. rates notices – get your rates notice sent via email – that way you can access details online
. birth certificates
. legal wills
. house titles / deeds
. Identification
. Service NSW / My Gov account – keep everything up in the cloud
. phone numbers – have phone numbers in a book / or in an email / when phone loses charge you can at least find a phone number of a relative
. passwords in a book or on your phone

Mobile Phones

. powerbank or car charger

Fuel

. extra fuel for generators
. those residents that went to Milton to get fuel, milk, bread on the Saturday morning could not get back to their properties as police blocks were already in place

Is your wife, mother, girlfriend, partner prepared?

. Many ‘’men’’ left on new years eve to get fuel, alcohol, NYE food and got stuck in town – many partners fought the fires by themselves and were trapped with elderly parents by themselves as well

Pool Noodle

. many stories were told to me about elderly people being sent to the water, not being able to swim – a pool noodle tucked under an arm would’ve assisted

Dog & cat / animal leash

. lots of animals survived, but then the owners had nothing to tie them up with
. many animals got away and attacked wild life

Bottle water & tin food

. a storage of 24 bottles of water – no water available for a long time / no food available – spare water essential

P2 / smoke masks

. purchase a mask now – not at Christmas!!

Animal / Human Identification

. write your name / mobile number / address on a horse / cattle / child / elderly neighbour that you have to let out of a fence when a fire approaches

Proper clothing

. long sleeve shirt / pants
. hat / cap
. socks and shoes (not thongs)

Buckets of water around property

. have water ready around property in plastic tubs – don’t fill up tubs on the day of the fire

Medication / Scripts / Reading Glasses / spare Car keys

For more information visit the Emergency NSW Emergency Kits web page.