Bushfire recovery news

The first fire-response vehi­cle to adopt an Abo­rig­i­nal name has joined the Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment and Water’s (DEW) fleet – now deployed on the Fleurieu Penin­su­la this fire season. 

The first fire-response vehi­cle to adopt an Abo­rig­i­nal name has joined the Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment and Water’s (DEW) fleet – now deployed on the Fleurieu Penin­su­la this fire season. 

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice is kick­ing off its annu­al spring pre­scribed burn pro­gram in prepa­ra­tion for this summer’s fire dan­ger season.

The new Flinders Chase Nation­al Park Vis­i­tor Cen­tre locat­ed at Karat­ta on Kan­ga­roo Island’s wild west coast has been offi­cial­ly opened, replac­ing the for­mer Rocky Riv­er cen­tre destroyed in the ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ bushfires.

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice (NPWS) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its annu­al pre­scribed burn pro­grams, with 90 burns con­duct­ed across the state in the past 12 months.