The Eltham Fire Brigade have a very good site with lots of information for the community. Worth a look from the point of view of site design and content.
The CFA home page provides a general background to the structure and workings of the Country Fire Authority of Victoria.
The Bureau of Meterology home page gives up-to-date weather.
If you want to find out more about places in Victoria, visit the National Center for Australian Studies
.
Abstracts of the papers presented at the 'Bushfire 99' conference are available from this site.
Natural Resources and Environment (Victorian State Government) have a good site and their Fires and Other Emergencies section contains material of interest.
Firebreak is a useful and very interesting site. It contains fire danger meters and other material of interest.
Nillumbik
Shire has a good section on bushfire survival for householders living in
rural-urban fringe areas.
Links to other fire brigdes in Victoria can be found
on Brigades on
the Net or at the CFA site.
Information about building a home in fire prone areas, including a discussion on vegetation management with relation to bushfire preparation can be found on this page