Disclosure log

GIP/0303

26/08/2014

Suppression costs and size of s44 fires from 2008/09 – 2013/14.

Documents released in full.

Contact the Right to Information Officer:
02 8741 5110

Contact the Right to Information Officer:
02 8741 5110

1. All mapping used by the NSW RFS for determining the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Entitlement Area(s).
2. All mapping of the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Entitlement Area(s).
3. All expert reports and studies relied upon by the NSW RFS to establish the 350 metre distance from bush fire prone land for determining the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Entitlement Area(s).
4. All documents evidencing the analysis of submissions received by the NSW RFS as a result of its public consultation on the 10/50 vegetation clearing laws in the period from 1 July 2014 and the date on which the 10/50 vegetation clearing Code of Practice for New South Wales commenced [1 August 2014].
5. All documents evidencing communications (including meetings) with the Office of Environment and Heritage, the Minister for the Environment, the Department of Planning and the Minister for Planning regarding the 10/50 vegetation clearing policy, code of practice or entitlement areas."

Document released in part.

1. All correspondence from members of the community, industry bodies, companies and associations requesting greater ability to clear vegetation without requiring approval in relation to fire, from 1 January 2012 up until 30 May 2014.
2. All correspondence notes or memos from NSW Rural Fire Service staff (or commissioned by them) containing analysis of the draft NSW 10/50 Code, from 1 January 2013 up until 1 August 2014 (excluding emails).
3. All correspondence, notes or memos which consist of or refer to analysis of the Victorian 10/30 and 10/50 rules and their suitability to NSW, from 1 January 2013 up until 30 May 2014.

1. 2002, 2006 and 2012 - total number of fires per 'rural fire district' (as distinct from 'fire districts' which are under the jurisdiction of Fire and Rescue NSW)
2. 2002, 2006 and 2012 a list of locations - all HRs/fires RFS at the following LGA:
   • Ku-Ring-Gai
   • Hawkesbury
   • Blue Mountains
   • Penrith
   • Camden
   • Sutherland
   • Pittwater
   • Hornsby
   • Gosford
   • Sutherland
   • Liverpool and
   • Wollongong
3. Number of red and white fleet vehicle accidents during 2014, 2012, 2008 for the following RFS Districts (locations):
   • Blue Mountains
   • Pittwater - Warringah
   • Sutherland
   • Liverpool - Camden - Campbelltown
   • Hornsby
   • Hawkesbury
   • Lachlan, Parkes, Forbes
   • Castlereagh and
   • Northern Rivers

1. The document prepared for the purposes of the environmental assessment of the activity under Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (if any) in respect of any hazard reduction works carried out:
   1. under the Consent; or
   2. in the Spring Gully Strategic Fire Advantage Zone and/or the Spring Gully Asset Protection Zone since the Strategy was adopted.
   We note that such a document is typically titled ‘Review of Environmental Factors’.
2. The bush fire hazard reduction certificate(s) (if any) in respect of any hazard reduction works carried out:
   1. under the Consent; or
   2. in the Spring Gully Strategic Fire Advantage Zone and/or the Spring Gully Asset Protection Zone since the Strategy was adopted.
3. Any report, briefing note or the like that was prepared for the certifying authority or issuing authority to justify any certificate referred to in paragraph 2 above.
4. Any bush fire risk management plan which a certificate referred to in paragraph 2 relates.

1. All internal correspondence, memorandums, reports, minutes of meetings, notes of conversations and other documents to or from Bundeena RFS Station 23 dating from 1 March 2013 to the present concerning 60-70 Bournemouth Street, Bundeena, Lot 3 in DP213924, (the former Scout land, Spring Gully).
2. All other correspondence, internal memorandums, reports, minutes of meetings, and other documents originating in the NSW RFS or the Minister’s Office dating from 26 November 2013 to the present concerning:
   1. 60-70 Bournemouth Street, Bundeena, Lot 3 in DP213924, (the former Scout land, Spring Gully) including:
   1. DA14/1238 and DA 14/1239 lodged with Sutherland Shire Council, but excluding any submissions made during public exhibition of the DAs by Sutherland Shire Council and excluding any correspondence from Council to the NSW RFS in relation to the DAs that originated up to 15 May.
   2. Land and Environment Court proceedings 15/10467 and 15/10468
   b. 10-40 Sussex Street, Bundeena, Lots 15-18, Section K, DP1782 (the former night soil depot).

1. All internal documents created or modified by the NSW RFS since 26 June 2015 concerning Development Applications:
   1. Sutherland Shire Council DA14/1238, and
   2. Sutherland Shire Council DA14/1239
   including all documents relating to the NSW Land and Environment Court proceedings (Case No 15/10468 and 15/10467) relating to the above Development Applications.

1. “The total number of RFS volunteers as at:
   1. 21 December 2018 (while we would prefer 31 December 2018 if possible we acknowledge this is being lodged before that time, even though we realise it will be assessed post that time. If possible we would prefer data as at 31 December to 21 December but will not press that given the limitations of the GIPA Act)
   2. 31 December 2018
   3. 31 December 2017
   4. 31 December 2016
   5. 31 December 2015
2. The total number of RFS volunteers who have completed all their training to legally allow them to attend a fire as at:
   1. 21 December 2018 (while we would prefer 31 December 2018 if possible we acknowledge this is being lodged before that time, even though we realise it will be assessed post that time. If possible we would prefer data as at 31 December to 21 December but will not press that given the limitations of the GIPA Act)
3. The total number of RFS members who attended a fire in:
   1. 2018
   2. 2017
   3. 2016
   4. 2015
4. The number of brigades, and identity of the brigades, where no member attended a fire in each of the following years:
   1. 2018
   2. 2017
   3. 2016
   4. 2015"

1. “As of 21 December 2018 how many RFS vehicles have had an Automatic Vehicle Location device fitted?
2. As of 21 December 2018 how many RFS vehicles have not had an Automatic Vehicle Location device fitted?
3. When is RFS scheduled to complete its rollout of Automatic Vehicle Location devices?
4. Please provide any reports identifying why there is a delay in the rollout of Automatic Vehicle location devices created at any time on and from 1 January 2018 to date.”

Contact the Right to Information Officer: 02 8741 5110

Whether and how the information can be accessed will be determined after consultation with the NSW Coroner.

“RFS investigation reports, for the following fires occurring in the 2019-20 bushfire season:
1. Green Wattle Creek Fire (Balmoral, within the Wollondilly LGA);
2. Currowan Fire (Conjola, within the Shoalhaven LGA);
3. Gospers Mountain Fire (Mt Wilson and Bilpin, within the Hawkesbury LGA); and,
4. Grose Valley Fire (Blackheath to Lawson, within the Blue Mountains LGA)

as referenced in the Final Report of the NSW Independent Bushfire Inquiry”

Documents withheld in full

(Conclusive presumption of overriding public interest against disclosure)

“I am seeking the following document or a document with a similar name but the same date period.

Gospers Mountain S44 - Strategic Incident Action Plan 13/12/2019 to 14/12/2019

Operation Period: 24 hours

Bells and Bilpin Division Sub Plan”

Documents withheld in full

(Conclusive presumption of overriding public interest against disclosure)