 We're Ross and Heather, we live in a small rural property in the south west of Victoria. We prepare our property for bushfires each year after seeing the devastations of Black Saturday. Shortly after that the CFA were conducting workshops in our local community and out of that came out of some ideas of what we could do to protect our property and our assets in case a bushfire comes along. We mow the lawn and keep the grass green. We pick up our branches, our sticks. We prune a lot of our trees to reduce the fire load. Some of the other things I do is clean the gutters, make sure that the sprinkler system is all working and that the nozzles and that aren't blocked. We've got on the fronts of the couple of the sheds here we have tarps. I'm able to draw these tarps across so the embers don't go into the shed. So if you're living in a fire risk area you need to do something to help yourself. So you need to rake the leaves up, burn off before the fire season comes and be prepared. The other thing is have a good fire plan. Update it every year.