Community Fireguard
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Group Activities
Every Community Fireguard group focuses on its own special needs.
Some activities and strategies of CFG groups may include:
- Organising neighbourhood working bees to reduce the
amount of fine fuel or to improve a nature reserve
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Becoming familiar with each other’s properties and firefighting equipment in groups where a shared response is planned
- Making
plans with the more vulnerable people who may have special needs
in regards to bushfire safety
- Establishing a telephone tree to
facilitate communication within the group
- Working out new ways
to share resources and information
- Organising the bulk buying
of personal protective clothing and equipment
Groups draw on the support of Community Fireguard facilitators
whenever they need it.
Community Fireguard participants are not CFA volunteers
It is not the role of Community Fireguard groups to become volunteer
groups for CFA. There is no expectation that Community Fireguard
groups or individual participants will:
- Take action to prevent or respond to fire on behalf
of CFA
- Engage in active fire fighting, beyond the protection of home and
immediate surrounds
- Advise or direct others about how to respond to the threat of fire
- Take responsibility for the safety of others in the group or wider
community
- Guarantee to warn others of an impending threat of fire.
