CFA North Warrandyte Fire Brigade

🔥 Key Fire Safety Essentials
Fire is dangerous, but there’s a lot you can do to protect yourself, your family and your home.
1. Install and maintain smoke alarms:
Make sure you have working smoke alarms on every level of your home. Test them regularly and replace batteries and units as needed.
2. Identify and remove fire hazards:
Check for overloaded power boards, damaged cords, unattended candles, and clutter near heat sources.
Keep flammable items away from stoves, heaters and open flames.
3. Create and practice a home fire escape plan:
Plan at least two ways out of every room.
Choose a safe meeting place outside.
Practice the plan with everyone in the household.
4. If a fire occurs: get out, stay out, and call 000:
Never go back inside for belongings, instead go to your safe meeting place.

🔥🔋🪫Another fire caused by batteries in bins.

Please dispose of batteries in authorised locations. 🙏

A single battery in a kerbside recycling bin - that’s all it took for a truck fire in Eltham North this week. The second time in just a month.

When batteries get crushed in collection trucks, they can spark and start fires fast. Drivers then have to pull over and unload burning recycling to put it out.

It’s dangerous for the driver, community and environment, but it’s completely avoidable.

🚫Batteries and electronics don’t belong in any bin, even small or rechargeable ones!

Instead:
• Drop household batteries at supermarkets or hardware stores
• Take small e-waste (up to 12cm) to Council drop-off points
• Take larger items to the Recycling Centre in Plenty

Find out more: nillumbik.vic.gov.au/e-waste

🔥 Planning on burning off now that the Fire Danger Period is over?

Ensure you are taking care and following CFA recommendations to be as safe as possible.

Remember to register your burn off - 1800 668 511 or firepermits.vic.gov.au

🔥 The Fire Danger Period ends in North Warrandyte (Nillumbik) tomorrow (Tues 7 Apr).

But remember! You still have to follow Nillumbik Shire Council regulations and register any burn offs here https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/burnoff

UPDATE: Total collected was $3,943.70! Thanks to everyone who donated. 🙏❤️

The team was out collecting for the The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Good Friday Appeal this morning at the junction of Reynolds Rd and Blackburn Rd.

If you missed us you can donate online using the link in the comments.

Smoke machines created a realistic environment for our Breathing Apparatus (BA) members last night as they honed their skills at Tuesday night training.

Being able to navigate a building with no visibility is a vital skill for firefighters.

Fire Danger Period
restrictions to end in North Warrandyte (Nillumbik Shire) on Tuesday 7 April 2026