First batch of Neighbourhood Safer Places announced
Source: NSW. Minister for Emergency Services. Media release.
"Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan has announced the locations of the first set of new Neighbourhood Safer Places, bush fire safety refuges.Mr Whan said the Neighbourhood Safer Places concept was identified as an additional safety measure for bush fire prone communities following the Victorian bush fires in February"Neighbourhood Safer Places are community refuges where people can go at short notice if a major fire is threatens, or if they had decided to stay and defend their home but then find this is too dangerous in the fire conditions," Mr Whan said. "