Leave a Review VIC Fires
Needs a better Legend
Needs explanation of what the different coloured shaded patches are. They aren’t mentioned on the legend. Probably it’s more obvious when there are not so very many fires. As far as I can work out, the “i” icons are each related to a shaded area but it is hard to work out which “i” goes with which patch. I initially thought the yellow patch stretching all the way up to Albury depicted the borders of a massive fire, but my relatives in the area assure me they aren’t burning, so I assume it goes with the air quality warning icon?
It wouldn’t hurt to have a Help page for new users to explain the basics of how to read the map.Show lessA-Pity
A instructional script would be helpful
Recurved a quick response on how to select your choice of watch zones from the developers which was pleasing. To select your own individual watch zone, go to the map and zoom in on the location you wish to watch. Hold your finger on that spot and it will come up in the watch zone add screen. Select Add and your done. You can select multiple watch zonesShow lessDeserning
CFA Victoria Fire App.
This App. is very informative and up to date. Allowing you to set perimeters for your own area will hopefully give you time to leave if the need arises. Would recommend this to residents who live close to the city but amongst open forest areas.HL-DB
Good, but requires fixes
The app is quite good, however, the ‘watch zone’ function does not work (it will delete the watch zone you enter off its list within minutes. Additionally, you cannot search for a location by entering an address, you have to search for a location in the map which is cumbersome).Baborts
Some map notifications missing
I have set my watchzone up to include Bribie Island, Caboolture etc .. currently there are couple of fires on Bribie but nothing is showing on the map, yet on mainland its working.. is Bribie excluded from map markings and incident listings or something ?useless at best
Fires in my area
I only want to know of fires in the area I choose. I don’t want to see all the fires in the state mainly being in the Melbourne area. They fill up my page and I just don’t want to know about them.Peterh543
Super helpful
I really appreciated how very up-to-date the app is with fire information!
the other day when I was driving on back roads in country victoria. I saw smoke and checked the app, and realised I was heading straight for a quickly growing new grass fire.grasshopper18
Good Go To app particularly in fire season.
I used this app before Vic Emergency was created. It was excellent. It is still good although Vic emergency seems to have taken the map feature which I liked. It would be good if the app could include when local fire restrictions are in place and when they are lifted, maybe by using postcodes. Could also be good if we could use the app to report intended burning off on a property. We currently do this via phoning.Show lessSissy's Still Smiling
Jay Posterino
I think this app is one of the best Fire and Emergency app I’ve ever used. Not bagging out EmergencyAUS or EmergencyVIC but this app is way better then those 2. Its very accurate and has more detail then the other ones do. Great App !Jay Posterino
Comprehensive and clear
VicFires gives me a large amount of information in useable format. I can see what is happening around the state while restricting my notifications to just my watch zone.
As a plus I also found the support to be quick and friendly.Ardeet
