Welcome to Incident Alert

Incident Alert alerts provides you access to fires and incidents updates Victoria and South Australia. Alerts are available via email, SMS,Twitter and contains a near real time mapping module.

Make Incident Alert part of your personal or corporate fire plan.

Incident Alert will SMS and email bushfire alerts as they happen in your area.

Keep in touch with the overall fire situation with CFA, CFS and DSE fires all on the one interactive map.

Incident Alert categorises between small and larger fires. Keep safe by knowing about larger fires impacting your region well before they reach you.

Receive timely SMS messages to fires in your area. A link in the SMS will allow you to continue to check the progress of the fire if your phone is web-enabled.

Customise your alerts and locations to protect your family and property.Each community is subtly different and we allow you to modify the alerts depending on the season, location and personal situation.

Registration

When you register, we provide you an initial 100 emails and create your first email alerts for you for fires in your area. Once registered, you can also add SMS and other options, ideal if you are on the school run, in the supermarket or on the way home from work. Incident Alert can give you the additional time needed in your bushfire plan.

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Email

Emails are sent minutes after a fire being reported and we provide you with 100 free emails on registering. The email contains details of the incident, links to maps and key sites. It doesn't matter if you are at home, at work or at college, we will let you know what is happening in your neighbourhood.

SMS

Mobile Phone for SMS Incident Alert sends SMS text messages to all Australian mobile networks to keep you updated whilst you are on the move. Ideal for the school run, supermarket shop or for the traveller.

Web enabled phones can continue to check for updates on the fire status using a unique link sent in the original SMS.

Mapping

Map of two DSE fires north & north west of Genoa, East Gippsland

Incident Alert provides interactive mapping that have CFA, CFS and DSE fires. On bad fire days with large lists of active fires, it allows you to view what is happening in just your area rather than having to continue to read the entire list.

Welcome to Incident Alert

Add Incident Alert updates to your website

You can now add local incidents to your web page using Twitter and Hootsuite. Ideal for fire brigades and community groups to show current and recent incidents.
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Updated mapping

Incident Alert has recently updated the main mapping pages.

Changes to alert set-ups

The Country Fire Authority (CFA) in Victoria is currently modfying their regions and we have altered the way alerts are processed.
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Fire Alerts available on Twitter (updated)

Incident Alert is now sending fire and incident alerts to Twitter. A Twitter account exists for each region as well as an account (@incident_Alert) for larger fires. Regions around Melbourne are now split into two accounts per region. One account is for new fires and one for contained and safe fires.
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The fifth season of bushfire alerts

Incident Alert is proud to have been delivering early warning messages of fires to Victorians for the last four years using email, SMS and now Twitter to provide you with up to date information. Since sending the first alert for a scrub fire in The Basin out we have...

Processed 500,000 fire status messages.
Sent emails and SMS alerts in the the tens of thousands.
Kept families up to date with where the fires are burning by showing both DSE and CFA fires on a single map.
Sponsored cycling in regional Victoria and the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League (YVMDFL)

We look forward in assisting in the 2009/2010 fire season by once again offering a service to all rural Victorians.

Incident Alert announces South Australian CFS coverage

Incident Alert is pleased to announce bushfire alerts for the Country Fire Service districts of South Australia in the 2009/2010 fire season.

As of September 2009, we now provide SMS, Email, Twitter feeds and mapping to South Australians at the same level as Victoria. Victorian residents near the South Australian border can now have both CFA and CFS fire calls in their alerts. Please note that Metropolitan Fire Service areas are not generally covered.

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Current bushfires...

No fires found.

Recent large fires..

• SLEETH RD, UNDERA (R22 Vic)

• GOULBURN VALLEY FLOODS, SHEPPARTON (R22 Vic)

• SMITHS GULLY RD, SMITHS GULLY (R13 Vic)

• KIALLA, SHEPPARTON (R23 Vic)

• EAST TERRACE, WALLAROO (R2 S.A.)

• LYDIA TERRACE, WALLAROO (R0 S.A.)

• WILSON ROAD, WANGRATTA (R23 Vic)

See maps for the full list of fires.

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