The Dixons Creek Fire Brigade crew is happy to come out onto the streets to encourage locals to get prepared for the upcoming fire season.
Street Meet is a community event where local firefighters go to a specific location in Dixons Creek to advise people with accurate, up-to-date guidelines for the fire season in advance.
Dixons Creek CFA third lieutenant and community safety coordinator Drew Adamson said the CFA’s message is to have a bushfire plan before the fire season comes through.
“What we do is we basically run people through scenarios of what they can do to give themselves a better chance of saving their houses, and also making themselves safe as well, and we also teach them about cleaning up before the fire season gets here, and making sure that there’s not a lot of small twigs and leaves and things like that around the house, which are obviously easy to catch on fire,” he said.
“We’ll have literature that they can pick up so that if they haven’t done a safety plan, they can just fill out the form for themselves.
“The other thing we’d like to highlight is that if they’re going to leave, they leave early and that they have things packed like some water, a torch and a radio with a battery.”
The first Street Meet is scheduled between 12pm and 2pm on Saturday 23 August, on Old Toolangi-Dixons Creek Road.
“We just want to get as many people as we can together. We’re neighbours of all those people and want everyone to be as safe as possible,” the community safety coordinator said.
“We’re having a sausage sizzle on the day to attract more people and kids.”
There will be more Street Meets in September at different locations in Dixons Creek.
