Getting bushfire-ready at Maydena

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MAYDENA will be the next town to host one of the Tasmania Fire Service’s and surrounding bushfire-ready field days this Saturday, November 4, at 11am at the old Maydena school on Kallista Rd.

This one-hour information session will include a walk and talk around the old school to talk through the eight areas of consideration for increasing your property’s preparedness for the bushfire season:
• Defendable space

• Vegetation management
• Water supply
• Access
• House maintenance and improvement to resist ember attack
• Maintenance activities
• Awareness of personal capacity
• Potential hazards

A free barbecue will be held at the end of the event.

Scenic Maydena in the upper Derwent Valley.