The new app replaces FireReady and brings together emergency information and warnings from all Victoria’s emergency services, including CFA, MFB, SES, Life Saving Victoria, Department of Economic Development and Transport and Resources, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Victorian communities can now access all our emergency information and warnings through the one, centralised location. The new app can be accessed on most mobile phones and tablets, and similar to FireReady it provides targeted warnings and notifications for specific locations which are called ‘watch zones’. Users can create up to 20 watch zones that are tailored to areas relevant for them.

To update FireReady to VicEmergency please visit you app store on your device, and follow the prompts to update the app.  New users will be able to download the VicEmergency app from the App Store or Google Play.

The VicEmergency app brings together emergency information and warnings from agencies including:

• Country Fire Authority
• Department of Economic Development and Transport and Resources
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Life Saving Victoria
• Metropolitan Fire Brigade
• Victoria State Emergency Service.

We also need to remind residents to always use more than one source of information and warnings this summer. This can include visiting the VicEmergency website, tuning into ABC local radio, calling the new VicEmergency Hotline (1800 226 226), or following CFA or VicEmergency on Facebook or Twitter.

For more information visit emergency.vic.gov.au