Key resources

Information sheets

The following information sheets relate to the quick reference guide and provide step by step instructions on how to use Council's Flood Viewer and Disaster Portal as well as how to sign up for MoretonAlert:

• Flood viewer user guide(PDF, 267KB)
• MoretonAlert user guide(PDF, 486KB)

Quick reference guide

This quick reference guide has been developed as an easy way to refer back to information and tools covered in the Online course: Get ready, respond and recover. It can also be used as a stand alone guide to prepare for, respond to and recover from a disaster.

Before a disaster

Understand your risk

• Moreton Bay Flood Viewer
  Place in your address to view the possible extent of a flood or storm tide event on your property.
• QFES Bushfire Postcode Checker
  Enter your address, postcode or suburb to see bushfire potential to take hold, spread and do damage.

Being prepared

• Moreton Alert
  A free SMS, email and voice message alert system that provides severe weather warnings, council prescribed burn notifications, bushfire warning messages, potential flash flooding incidents and planned dam releases within the Moreton Bay region. People who understand Modern Standard Arabic can also sign up.
• Stay informed
  You can get emergency information, by listening to local radio stations: ABC 612AM, Moreton Bay's own 101.5FM or 99.7 Bridge FM.
• Prepare your home
  Tips for preparing your home and property for disasters.
• Prepare a household emergency and evacuation plan
  Prepare a household emergency and evacuation plan online through Get Ready Queensland.
• Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness Plan
  Workbook for people with disability to tailor emergency preparedness to their individual support needs.
• Moreton Bay disaster preparedness course - Teacher guide and lesson workbooks
  A course designed for people with no English or low literacy levels, to understand how to prepare for, respond to and recover from a natural disaster.

If your property is at greater risk of bushfire:

• Make your Bushfire Survival Plan
  

  If you live in a high risk bushfire area you need to have a plan to prepare your home and property, whether you choose to leave early or stay and fight the fire, and where to tune into for up to date bushfire warnings.

During a disaster

Responding

• Disaster Dashboard
  The dashboard provides information on local road closures, bushfire events, sandbag stations, evacuation centres, news and alerts and links to Council’s social media notifications and links to the most up to date information from emergency service agencies (for example; BOM, QFES, QPS). You can search an address for current information relating to that area.

After a disaster

Recovery

• Health, wellbeing and cleaning up after a storm, flood and cyclone
  Includes information on returning to affected buildings, home and property repairs, restoring pools and water tanks, common bacterial infections, floodwater contamination, plumbing and water use, mould and asbestos.
• Returning home after a bushfire
  Provides factsheets to assist residents returning after a fire on how to maintain rainwater quality, smoke effects, airborne dust, alternative fuel resources and asbestos hazards.
• Housing help after a disaster
  Finding temporary accommodation, applying for financial assistance, repairing your home, help with rental and social housing.
• Tenants Queensland
  Free advice for renters, including if affected by a natural disaster.
• Financial assistance
  Assistance and Grants available if residents are directly affected by a natural disaster.

Download Quick reference guide - printable version(PDF, 91KB)