Updating information
I find this app very useful and easy to use but it needs to update more often.
I see a notification for a planned burn that was 23 days ago.
Does this mean it’s still going to happen?
I see a notification for a planned burn that was 23 days ago.
Does this mean it’s still going to happen?
Good app but has issues.
The app tells me what I need to know, but has a couple of issues. I had the app in 2022 during the floods but because the app didn’t push through while the phone was in ‘focus’ mode it didn’t push through. It took me a while to find out how to correct that. During the last potential flooding period the warnings came through but they weren’t actively canceled, just removed.
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Add stuff mate
Telling u where fires are is good but maybe add other incidents and crimes so we can see stuff
Keeps you safe
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Really good and helpful
Very helpful when you get worried about a accident
Too may notifications
I think this is a good and important app. However…
I have the notifications set to the minimum for my watch zone so that I will get warning if there’s serious threat of bushfire. On a total fire ban day, I get no less than 13 almost identical notifications just to inform me that conditions are dangerous.
This is a ridiculous level of notifications. You need to understand that more notifications DOES NOT lead to higher awareness. It leads to habitually ignoring ANY notifications because 99% of them are not important. It’s effectively the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect.
If there is ever a really important safety message that I should receive in my watch zone, I will miss it simply because I’ve learned to ignore and delete notifications from this app. Or at best, ignore them at the time and scroll through them later to see if there was anything important.
I actually think the amount of superfluous notifications in this app is dangerous. It encourages complacency.
On a related note, there is no distinction in the app between a life threatening bushfire and a single bush that’s caught fire in the suburbs somewhere. We need to reserve the word bushfire for community level emergencies. That word needs to strike fear into the hearts of those who hear it.
Seeing a notification that there’s a bushfire in my suburb, and then finding out that the incident was a small shrub that smoked a bit and a passing fireman put it out by throwing a bucket of water on it again encourages me to ignore warnings from the app as sensationalised.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be notified of those incidents, but don’t call them bushfires. We all know the damage, fear and chaos a real bushfire can cause. Let’s not diminish the meaning of a bushfire warning by teaching people to react with “oh it’s probably nothing. It’s never anything”.
I have the notifications set to the minimum for my watch zone so that I will get warning if there’s serious threat of bushfire. On a total fire ban day, I get no less than 13 almost identical notifications just to inform me that conditions are dangerous.
This is a ridiculous level of notifications. You need to understand that more notifications DOES NOT lead to higher awareness. It leads to habitually ignoring ANY notifications because 99% of them are not important. It’s effectively the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect.
If there is ever a really important safety message that I should receive in my watch zone, I will miss it simply because I’ve learned to ignore and delete notifications from this app. Or at best, ignore them at the time and scroll through them later to see if there was anything important.
I actually think the amount of superfluous notifications in this app is dangerous. It encourages complacency.
On a related note, there is no distinction in the app between a life threatening bushfire and a single bush that’s caught fire in the suburbs somewhere. We need to reserve the word bushfire for community level emergencies. That word needs to strike fear into the hearts of those who hear it.
Seeing a notification that there’s a bushfire in my suburb, and then finding out that the incident was a small shrub that smoked a bit and a passing fireman put it out by throwing a bucket of water on it again encourages me to ignore warnings from the app as sensationalised.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be notified of those incidents, but don’t call them bushfires. We all know the damage, fear and chaos a real bushfire can cause. Let’s not diminish the meaning of a bushfire warning by teaching people to react with “oh it’s probably nothing. It’s never anything”.
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Valuable but flawed
An app that is truly needed. There is a lot to like but there needs to be greater fidelity for notifications. What happens is i get too many irrelevant notifications and run the risk of ignoring them and potentially missing the ones that count. Allow me to choose whether i want to be notified for a specific categories such as tfb declared. When i see a notification popping up i want it to be a real issue not just informational.
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A few suggested changes…
Totally appreciate the app. Here’s my wish list. It all relates to the “filter” option:
1. I want to be able to set “impact area” as “permanently on”. It’s annoying having to turn it on every time I change maps or watch zones.
2. I want to be able to view wind direction and speed AND impact zone at the same time. Same issue as 1 - can I please set options “on” and they stay on and load multiple options.
3. As well as “impact area”, it would be amazing if we could see approximately where the fire front is or where there is active burning. This one may be counter productive so feel free to disregard it. But 1&2 - please!!!!
1. I want to be able to set “impact area” as “permanently on”. It’s annoying having to turn it on every time I change maps or watch zones.
2. I want to be able to view wind direction and speed AND impact zone at the same time. Same issue as 1 - can I please set options “on” and they stay on and load multiple options.
3. As well as “impact area”, it would be amazing if we could see approximately where the fire front is or where there is active burning. This one may be counter productive so feel free to disregard it. But 1&2 - please!!!!
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Very glitchy
This app doesn’t work for me I try to login keeps telling me my password is wrong and I know it’s not. I have reset my password 5 times it keeps telling me it’s wrong. It just seems very glitchy
Irrelevant Notification Spam
I had to delete this garbage.
No matter what, this app will spam you with countless irrelevant notifications. So much so that you end up ignoring them and missing important information.
Counter productive, this will acclimatise you into ignoring their warnings.
Vic gov would have been better off using the money to improve their emergency services, instead they wasted it on this.
No matter what, this app will spam you with countless irrelevant notifications. So much so that you end up ignoring them and missing important information.
Counter productive, this will acclimatise you into ignoring their warnings.
Vic gov would have been better off using the money to improve their emergency services, instead they wasted it on this.
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Super spam‼️‼️
A literal spam machine multiple times a day with unimportant nonsense about how hot it will be 500km away from you. I would like the app if it gave useful information.
Have now uninstalled it 3 times. I guess this is the final time. A great idea ruined by spam.
Have now uninstalled it 3 times. I guess this is the final time. A great idea ruined by spam.
Outdated location data
My address is not found when creating a watching zone. My house was built over four years so, it is unbelievable that it cannot be found in your data base considering the purpose of this app.
Disappointed
Won’t let you easily change locations, constantly resets to other addresses
Fake
Fake app with fake notifications of fires all the time yet there is no fire or smoke outside anywhere
Alert overload
I installed this app and set my settings to only get alerted about bushfires near me however the app pushes alerts about air quality and all sorts of other junk continuously with no way to stop it. Unfortunately I’ve had to disable the app on my phone now.
Crying Wolf
When I receive frequent app notifications for NOT urgent alerts like air quality and a Total Fire Ban Day eventually I learn to ignore the sound and icon or actually get so annoyed that I completely mute the app. Then, if there was ever an actually critically urgent Watch Zone notification alert like Evacuate Now, I will probably not read it in time.
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Asks for unnecessary personal information
Asks for unnecessary information.
Why does VicEmergencyneed my name and email address?
I am sick of having my email address sold on.
I have specified that I do not want emails, so my name and email address are none of your business.
I do not live in Victoria, I am checking on information of fires near family and friends.
Why does VicEmergencyneed my name and email address?
I am sick of having my email address sold on.
I have specified that I do not want emails, so my name and email address are none of your business.
I do not live in Victoria, I am checking on information of fires near family and friends.
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So many notifications
Having so many notification takes away from the ones that are actually important.
Straightforward
Pretty simple and straightforward.
Address search not working
Current bug with address search not working even if you just type the suburb it defaults to all of vic view on pressing enter. And when messages get updated for a warning it’d be good to get a blue dot next to the part that changed as it’s hard to work out what has updated in multi paragraph text while packing a car or fleeing a fire.
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