VIC Fires App Reviews

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Fire App. Great app. I use it all the time. Keeps me up to date and you need that in a fire zone. Keep up the good work. David.

Unreliable. Recently this app won’t open or crashes. Suggest maybe an update is required?

Map this fire. Whats the point? Had what we thought was a fire within 1.6k’s from home according to the map on Vicfires when the fire was 10-15k’s away. Really! Oh and there has been a fire at Goldie Spur track for weeks yet its never been shown on the map. Whats the point!

Great and reliable. Easy to navigate clear quick and reliable information So fantastic that it has wind speeds and wind direction from weather stations across the state I don’t even bother with the other fire ready app hard to navigate and not user friendly this one’s excellent

Must have app. Excellent app. Great for keeping up to date on local incidents, especially on high fire danger days.

Rating values unclear. I don’t like the new fire danger rating- it doesn’t specifically state TFB says, and I can’t seem to find what the rating figure actually signifies 🤷‍♀️ We live and work in an area and industry ( agriculture) that is heavily impacted by extreme weather conditions and the ‘old’ way was an extra tool to use.

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.

INFORMATIVE. I find Vic Fire App very informative with up to date details on fires. As l live close to bush land l find this info critical and either puts my mind at rest or l have to action our fire plan 🔥

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).

Peace of mind. As a travelling musician, with friends all over the state, I call this app my peace of mind in the fire season. Thanks for keeping it so up to date and easy to use!!!

Where is it safe. It’s a great app when traveling around Victoria through the bush to let you know if it’s safe

Very helpful app. I use this app constantly living in a fire prone area. The information is vital to my decision to leave during high fire danger days

Crashing problems. used to be able to click the town weather icon and then click to get a history of the wind or temp now it just causes the app to crash. Makes the app less useful when trying to track wind changes in fire season

Pretty basic but ok. Crashes when you try and adjust the settings

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.

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.

Needs to be OzRunways compatible. Software needs to be updated to include kml or Kmz compatibility so it works on OzRunways. This will allow the fire location to be uploaded straight to OzRunways so fire fighting aircraft can fly direct to the fire using the aviation maps.

Keeps me informed. I can see what’s happening locally, and get notifications of anything nearby.

Fire app. A great app keeps me on the know of all the fires for I have family in the country so it also gives me a piece of mind.

Vic fires. It would have to be one of the best apps ever. For safety and security where any fires are at any given time. Thank you. Ron

Top app. Works well, very handy and a safety net. Only one complaint, there is a yellow skin all over victoria and makes it hard to see under it.

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.

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 ?

Thumbs up. Love the app. Especially how you can view the map as a satellite image. This gives you by far a better idea as to where the fire is and potentially how devastating it can be.

Fires. It’s great sometime fires look closer than they are Ie today’s burn off at Briag along looked close from Munro website reassured me that it was a Burnoff

Thanku for this app. It’s a relief to have this app, thank u to all the people that update the information & are involved with this app. The information is so well presented & accessible.

Maree Dalgleish. Quick notifications & very easy to understand & read. Have recommended to many people👍

Brilliant. Great app - I was able to see what fires are around, how far away, and how serious. It also shows other warning like trees down and thunderstorm/asthma alert. Thanks so much

Brilliant app. Reliable, informative, everything you need.. All the information you need, in a fast reliable app. Far superior to fireready and vicemergency. If you want a fire app that loads well with a poor mobile signal ( typical in hilly high fire danger country), includes fire info., wind (essential), even fire hotspot info., is simple to use (I have found this critical when there are fires nearby, because you start getting stressed and have many fast decisions and actions to take), does alerts, sorting, filtering, etc., nothing beats this. I'd be happy to pay serious money for this app because I continue to depend on it. The Government apps have been more than disappointing.

Aviation. Great asset too fire agency pilots opening OzRunways hopefully will see the other states added soon

App. I like the app loads instantly and gives me accurate up to date info. I live in Wonga Park so I’m watching and listening to it till end of March these days. Thankyou

More updates please. Great app but needs to be updated more often, right now we have a fire next to our property and last update was three hours ago. Obviously commonsense takes precedence but it’s good to have the best advice !

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.

Awesome App. Have been using this App for a number of years and it is awesome. Very accurate and informative.

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 !

Coral. This app certainly keeps up to date with emergency situations. Living in semi rural areas, it shows me where fires are

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 zones

Not as good as it used to be.. I’ve been using this app for years. It’s very user friendly, and provides all the information I need to be aware of the fire situation in my area. However, it does not update as quickly as it used to, and does not show fires nearest to me any more. It used to open at the nearest fire, it now shows me fires many miles away, even if I have a fire close by. I used to recommend this app to everyone, but cannot any more. A shame.

Do better. I currently have to watch fires on both sides of the NSW/Vic border and I’m using the RFS Fires Near Me app, this app and Vic Emergency app. RFS Fires Near Me is so much better that I use it to check the Vic side fires. It doesn’t give much info just fire boundaries (it’s not their role, they have enough to do) but it’s so much more user friendly than this app and the VE one. And typically the Vic based ones don’t lower themselves to include fires on the NSW side. Cut all the pretty animations and put an address function on it for starters. Then go check out Fires Near Me and change your design. We’re going to rely on these every summer from now on, please do better.

Not that good. I am a country user & in bush fire zone. I find the app freezes, cant scroll through the warnings, have a number of messages or whatever notified on app icon but can’t seem to find what they pertain to as no matter what screen I tap on the no. doesn’t decrease. Feel a bit duped of my $. Just isn’t user friendly or work as I expected.

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.

Essential summer reading.. Being able to quickly find out where nearest bushfires are gives relative peace of mind. This informative app provides all the data required to know when to stay, or go, and in the safest direction.

Missing automatic building fire alarm call outs. Would be great if we could see the fire indicator panel alarms again in this app

Cynthia Goudie. Hopeless. Cannot get wind directions. Cannot change it to only give my home setting area. Settings don’t alter when changed.

Fire Ratings Forecast. The Fire Ratings Forecast portion of this App has been fantastic, not only giving the forecast fire danger rating for each region but also a number for each rating , indicating the severity of each rating. But unfortunately this has just disappeared, when you open the Fire Ratings Forecast from the menu the screen is blank. This has been the case for nearly 2 weeks. I’m a CFA volunteer and use this part of the App on a daily basis this time of the year. Hope it’s up and running soon?

Review. Great app. Far better than the vic emergency app, quicker with up dates and much more informative. Well done

Great app!!. Great app! Clear, easy to understand and very informative! It’s great seeing how many trucks are sent and then the classification of safe/ responding/ under control is great!!

Firey. As a emergent responder this used to be a a 5 star app especially for fires ect. But they recently changed their data feed and now it is notification overload. My watch zone is only 15km and I get notified times every time a tree falls down and often multiple times for the one incident. After 100s It’s to the point I don’t even take notice. They need to filter the notifications or allow the end user the ability.

Seen better -. This app is too busy and no key/legend readily available to explain what you are seeing. The flame symbols are cute but after a while they get very distracting and cover too much area on the map. It is hard to see simply where the fire has burnt!!

Reliable and clear information about ‘events’. Thank goodness that this app is easy to use. The ability to provide reliable and clear information about ‘events’ which doesn’t need to reset to consistently when exiting from an incident information link, unlike the ‘State’s Emergency Service’ app. Please keep this app running as it’s fantastic.

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