| Home phone number
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In case we have to contact you to clarify any points in the survey.
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| Emergency contact details
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If there is a situation involving your home (or nearby) and you are not present then we'll attempt to contact you (depending on availability of Brigade members).
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| Your surroundings
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Just so we can be as prepared as possible. It may save precious minutes upon our arrival if we know the layout around your house.
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| Fire Preparedness
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As above.
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| Your house
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An elevated, timber-clad house can be hard to defend in the case of some bushfires for example. Resources we can muster (extra equipment and calling in other Brigades) may depend on the type of house you live in.
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| Vehicular access
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If we can't get to most sides of your house then we'll need extra hoses (which can not normally be carried on our fire vehicle). Our large tanker needs at least a 2.8 metre wide and 4 metre high access.
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| Outbuildings
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Your home will be our first priority. Outbuildings in the path of a bushfire may affect our firefighting strategy.
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| Hazardous materials
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Vital knowledge we do not currently have. We're not talking a 4l. can of petrol or gas cylinders. Any other chemicals or large amounts of fuel we are. If you do have such things then we would like to contact you and apply the relevant 'HazChem' label where appropriate.
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| Your water supply
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Our tankers only hold a certain amount of water. A normal house fire will need much more. If we can tap into your house supply somehow it will definitely save time re-filling, and maybe your house. Even being able to gravity feed into our tankers and then pumped out at a higher pressure can help.
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| Brigade fittings for hoses
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Several houses are set up so that we can immediately use the house supply as well as our tankers. The Brigade will normally use either 25mm or 38mm fittings with a specialised aluminium coupling.
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| Accessible dam
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The brigade can refill our tankers pretty quickly - if we can park them near a dam. We hope that you'd allows us to use this supply of water in the case of your neighbour's house being under threat.
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| Anything else
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This literally means anything that you think we should know. Anything!
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