The population across the district is 75,000 people who live in, or in the vicinity of 27 towns and villages across the Mountains. The local government area covers 143,000 hectares of land in the Greater Sydney Region.

About 70 per cent of the area is incorporated into the World Heritage Blue Mountains National Park, with approximately 11 per cent of the total land area in private ownership.

BUSH FIRE DANGER PERIOD HAS COMMENCED

PERMITS REQUIRED

   
SUNDAY 29 JANUARY 2012

Blue Mountains District News

• Heatbeat 30-1-2012
• OHS laws changes
• Black Saturday provides bushfire answers
• Bush Fire Awareness
• Accused arsonist appears in court
• NSW RFS Learning and Development Forum
• CSF and CLO COURSES
• Heatbeat 16-1-2012
• Man charged following investigations into Blue Mountains bushfire - Strike Force Tronto
• Concerns of more serious bush fires over the rest of Summer
• Blue Mountains man arrested over Katoomba bushfire
• FUEL MANAGEMENT BURN NOTIFICATION - BLAXLAND 13-1-2012
• EOI_Volunteer Leader Programs 2012 closes 27th January 2012
• 2012 NSW RFS COURAGE UNDER FIRE - RFSA KOKODA TREK
• Heatbeat 1-1-2012
• Prepare Act Survive Campaign Update December 2011
• Holiday period fire risk
• NEW WEBSITE TO TACKLE BUSHFIRE ARSON
• State Bush Fire Plan
• Christmas Fire Warning
• Top national award for NSW RFS Hotspots
• OH&S Harmonisation
• Heatbeat 12-12-2011
• NSW Work Health and Safety Legilsation and the NSW RFS
• NSW Curing update
• EM News December 2011
• Health and Safety Fact Sheet 1
• Don’t let fire ruin your holidays
• Call for abstracts, posters and video submissions for the 2012 ACE&FA Conference
• NSW Rural Fire Service welcomes 800 new Cadets
• Heatbeat 28-11-2011
• Prescribed burning an essential tool in managing community safety
• NSW RURAL FIRE SERVICE Annual Report 2010/11
• Hotspots Fire Project
• Windstorm 2011: BMCC video
• afac-news November 2011
• Grassland Update 18-11-2011
• Do you know this 000 caller?
• Mobile Trauma Training Facility
• Fires contained at Medlow Bath, Lawson
• Bushfire: Darwin’s Walk Wentworth Falls
• Emergency volunteers receive $873,000 boost
• Fire Note 88 October 2011

CURRENT CONDITIONS      FORECAST