Fire
NSW Rural Fire Service
The NSW Rural Fire Service provides information on community safety, fire restrictions, volunteering to be a firefighter and changes to bushfire protection legislation.
NSW Fire Brigade
The NSW Fire Brigade is there to assist in urban fires. For information on home and commercial safety tips, fire investigation and research and educational tools.
There are simple steps that members of the Hawkesbury community can do to their properties in areas that are at risk of bush fire.
In September 2009, new Fire Danger Ratings were announced and new bush fire alert levels were introduced. These nationally-agreed changes were introduced on 1 October 209 following extensive consultation between the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) and other NSW and interstate fire agencies.
