Thursday, September 30, 2010

early warning systems

Earlier this week I went to a meeting organised by hills group, the Dandenong Ranges Community Bushfire Group, who were demonstrating the latest Early Warning System technologies.

The Group are looking for support for this infrastructure to be installed in the Dandenong Ranges. The system demonstrated is different to a typical siren system as it is voice enabled and runs via internet protocols.

The Early Warning System technology is an important part of the bushfire response, the government needs to work swiftly to investigate these modern alerting applications. We need to give fire prone communities as many options as we can to response to bushfire and Early Warning Systems are one of the tools available in response to an emergency.

The Greens support the introduction of Early Warning Systems and recognise the important role they play in assisting our communities.

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