Published on Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 1:28:54 PM
Residents can come along to a series of fire resilience workshops next month to gain the skills and confidence to better prepare themselves, their family, and their property in a bushfire emergency.
The first workshop teaches participants how to create safer and more resilient properties in the face of ongoing threat of fire and climate change. Property layout and design, landscaping, building design, retrofitting and biodiversity are all discussed.
Guest speakers Mike and Mandy Bamford from Bamford Consulting will discuss dieback and fire ecology while The Forever Project’s Chris Ferreira will talk about how to make properties firewise and sustainable, as well as beautiful.
The second workshop is a practical bus tour, where participants will see real-life examples of fire safe designs and meet people who are already changing their homes and properties to make them more fire ready.
Strategies that demonstrate fire safe designs for homes, gardens, bushlands and farming areas will be discussed as well as steps participants can take to be better prepared this bushfire season.
A visit to a fuel reduction burning site will give participants insight into strategies to manage fuel loads and biodiversity while a local nursery visit will shed light on fire resilient plants to use near the home.
The final workshop is a 6 hour session that covers both property planning and bushfire safety planning. Participants will create a property plan map and a visual bushfire survival plan map for their property.
The funding for the workshops comes under the joint Commonwealth-State Natural Disaster Resilience Program which helps local communities and agencies better prepare and plan for natural disasters.
The series is delivered by the Shire of Denmark in partnership with Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Forever Project.
Pictured: A fire preparedness session held in Knowles Court last year.
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