Perth and WA Fires: Useful Links

This page collates internet information sources for fires and emergencies currently happening in Perth and Western Australia. Sadly, it seems it’s always useful around January and February. Additions/corrections welcome.

Web

• The OFFICIAL DFES Alerts are available here – go here first, especially if you are in danger.
• The ABC has a special role in reporting emergencies; consider it official also: check http://abc.net.au/news/emergency/state/wa/
• @Landgate‘s ‘FireWatch’ Maps – refreshed every 2-4 hours – http://firewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/
  
• CSIRO’s industrial-grade ‘Sentinel’ Maps present the same data with a more complex view
  http://sentinel.ga.gov.au/acres/sentinel/index.shtml
• The Red Cross People Finder helps locate missing folk

Twitter

• Follow http://twitter.com/#!/DFES_WA right now
• This Twitter Search link uncovers all known ‘perth fire’ twitter accounts, hashtags and search terms – it’s exhaustive (the ‘-rt’ switch is a useful inclusion)
• This lighter-weight search of ‘perthfires/wafires/bushfires’ hashtags is more focused (because people have to deliberately tag their tweets; it shows care and thought) but is a little noisier (more spam): http://twitter.com/#!/search/perthfires OR wafires OR bushfires
• Trendsmap for Perth: https://www.trendsmap.com/local/au/perth
• A rolling twitter stream of the perthfires and wafires hashtags
• For the Power Tweeps – A Twitter List: Subscribe to https://twitter.com/bonwag/lists/perthfires in your Twitter client and filter for ‘perthfires’, ‘wafires’ and ‘bushfires’.

Video

• Youtube Videos

Active Media Outlets

• AM Radio: @720Perth ABC (listen live), ABC Newsradio (listen live) and @6PR 882 (listen live)
• Follow http://twitter.com/#!/thewest_com_au
• Follow http://twitter.com/#!/ABCEmergency
• Follow https://twitter.com/9NewsPerth
• Follow https://twitter.com/7NewsPerth

Amateur Links

Some unfiltered/unmoderated sources – please exercise your own judgement on these unofficial feeds.

• WA Radio Scanner User’s Group – Major Fires and Incidents forum – Twitter – @WARSUG
• Broadcastify allows you to listen to radio communications by the Perth and SouthWest Fire/Rescue/Emergency services