The Community Bushfire Protection Plan provides members of the community with specific information on:

• Safety options for surviving a bushfire, including the location of nearby safer places
• Communications for receiving emergency warnings and bushfire updates
• Access in and out of the community area
• Advice on what to do to prepare and survive a bushfire
• How and where to source additional bushfire safety information

Input is sourced from a range of groups such as the local community, key stakeholders, infrastructure managers, local brigades, land managers, industry experts, and service providers.

Tasmania Fire Service may identify Nearby Safer Places in Community Protection Plans. A Nearby Safer Place is a site that provides a shelter option for people, as a last resort.

Evacuation Centres are buildings that have been identified by the TFS in partnership with councils and other government agencies that offer basic amenities including temporary shelter, drinking water and toilet facilities. They are for people who leave bushfire affected areas and do not go somewhere else of their own choosing eg. to homes of friends or family etc.

• AFAC Position on Bushfire Safety
• AFAC Member Agencies
• State and Territory Emergency Services
• Tasmanian councils
• TFS Bushfire Safety Publications
• TFS Bushfire Safety Information
• TAS Planned Fuel Reduction Activities
• DPIPWE Lands, Titles and Property (including a link to The LIST)