Preparing for bushfire season
As summer approaches it’s essential you make a bushfire survival plan and ensure everyone in your household understands your plan.
Prepare your property
Take the following steps to prepare and maintain your property for bushfire season.
- Clear your roof gutters and keep your property tidy to minimise fuel around your home
- Make sure you know how to manually operate electric garage doors, gates and locks – and practice how to do it
- If you have petrol or diesel water pumps and generators, test them and carry out any required maintenance
- If you have vegetation growing near powerlines connecting to your home, contact a professional to see how you can have this trimmed
Prepare and maintain your emergency kit
- Keep a battery powered AM/FM radio and spare batteries
- Have a torch and spare batteries ready
We're preparing for bushfires too
We’ve been working all year round to implement a comprehensive program to prepare our network for the rigours of summer.
To ensure our network is reliable and resilient to heatwaves, summer storms and potential bushfires, we’ve inspected over 13,000 kilometres of powerlines and 172,000 poles, to find and repair potential hazards and to keep trees a safe distance from powerlines in bushfire zones.
We’re upgrading the network by replacing bare overhead powerlines with covered conductors, installing fire resistant poles and are already implementing new technologies like micro grids, community batteries and early fault detection devices to keep communities safe and the network resilient.
What is a high fire danger day?
Fire danger ratings describe the potential level of danger should a bushfire start and are calculated using a combination of weather forecasting and information about vegetation that could fuel a fire.
The new Australian fire danger rating system (AFDRS), categorises these into various categories
What to do on a high fire danger day?
Check your bush fire survival plan
Make sure you know how to manually operate electric garage doors, gates and locks
Keep electric vehicles charged if you can
Charge up mobile phones and devices, as well as power banks
Monitor fire warnings through the Rural Fire Service or Hazards Near Me app
Report electricity supply interruptions through our website or call 133 718
Treat all powerlines as 'live' and dangerous by keeping at least 8m away from any low or fallen powerlines. Never drive across fallen powerlines.
Check your bush fire survival plan
Make sure you know how to manually operate electric garage doors, gates and locks
Keep electric vehicles charged if you can
Charge up mobile phones and devices, as well as power banks
Monitor fire warnings through the Rural Fire Service or Hazards Near Me app
Report electricity supply interruptions through our website or call 133 718
Treat all powerlines as 'live' and dangerous by keeping at least 8m away from any low or fallen powerlines. Never drive across fallen powerlines.
If you see a fallen or damaged power line, call Endeavour Energy on 131 003 or call 000 if the situation is life-threatening.
