News

• Almost 4000 Gippslanders without power

  Almost 4000 East Gippsland residents in Victoria are without power due to damage caused by a large bushfire, which crews expect to contain later on Wednesday.

• Federal Government to upgrade Emergency Alert service

  The Federal Government is to upgrade the Emergency Alert warning system, pushing the service, which delivers SMS notifications about natural disasters out to mobile handsets, to all Australian mobile networks.

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  Country Fire Authority CIO, Michael Foreshew

  Decision making can be a critical process for any IT professional, but at the Country Fire Authority (CFA) it can be a matter of life and death. As a cancer survivor and father of an autistic child, Michael Foreshew took on the challenge in an effort to give something back to the community.

• Vic deploys airborne fire spies

  The Victorian government has outfitted its fire-spotting aircraft with video cameras to spot fires and monitor the effectiveness of fire-fighting efforts.

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  Victoria to tip in $3M to spy on bushfires

  Victoria’s troubled bushfire alert system may be bolstered with a fleet of fire-detection cameras after a $3 million government trial announced today is completed.

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  Telstra the frontline of defence in bushfire season

  Telstra has been awarded the contract to build a national telephony-based emergency warning system in the event of a life-threatening natural disaster.

• Victoria Police win technology award for bushfire response

  Victoria Police has won an award for being the first organisation to use Geographical Information System (GIS) to transmit critical information directly from a fire affected area to a command post.

• Vic bushfire commission streamed online

  The Royal Commission into the Victorian bushfires to begin in Melbourne today will be streamed live over the Internet.

• Volunteers man call centre to link lost bushfire victims

  More than 200 volunteers are manning continual six-hour shifts in a Melbourne call centre to handle calls from victims of the Victorian bushfires.