Neighbourhood Safer Places and Your Plan in the Blue Mountains

The NSW Rural Fire Service says Neighbourhood Safer Places are a place of last resort during a bush fire emergency, that travelling to or sheltering at one does not guarantee your safety, and that not all areas have one. A prepared house is part of a plan, not a replacement for it.

What Neighbourhood Safer Places and your plan in the Blue Mountains actually involves

Neighbourhood Safer Places are a place of last resort during a bush fire emergency. The RFS also says travelling to or sheltering at a Neighbourhood Safer Place does not guarantee your safety. Not all areas will have a Neighbourhood Safer Place.

An open mown playing field with a small clubhouse and gum trees at the edge — neighbourhood safer places, Blue Mountains. Illustrative example.

What this does not tell you

The RFS page is about where to go as a last resort, not about house protection, and it does not mention shutters. This site cannot tell you whether a Neighbourhood Safer Place exists near a given house: the RFS's interactive map does. The RFS adds that the conditions at a Neighbourhood Safer Place may be uncomfortable and you may be affected by heat, smoke and embers.

Ask the RFS or your brigade about your bush fire survival plan before you ask anyone to price shutters.

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