Can anyone join?

Yep, NSW Bushfire Brigade Alerts is available to anyone.

Is there a cost?

There are two costs that will come up but all are reasonably priced.

Firstly, notifications are sent to Pushover, which is a third-party app. Pushover is free to use for 30 days and then requires a single one-off $5 USD payment. This does however give you the Pushover app for life and so it's available for any other future uses.

Secondly, I also charge a monthly subscription that is used to cover the expenses for running the service, which are the IT costs of 24/7 scanning and sending Pushover messages. This is a modest fee of $0.50/month per LGA you want new incident alerts for and $0.50/month per LGA you want incident update alerts for. For most users this amounts to $2-$3 a month.

Non-RFS LGA's (i.e. inner Sydney and Newcastle) cap out at a total of $0.50/month regardless of how many you have. Alerts for incidents that go to Watch & Act or Emergency Warning are completely free.

This subscription will ony be requested after 31 days of joining, so you have a free 31 days to test NSW Bushfire Brigade Alerts out. You are also welcome to change the LGA's you monitor to reduce your subscription cost.

Do you scan brigade pager messages?

No unfortunately I don't have the equipment/experience to do that.

What if I want to change my notificaiton preferences?

Not a problem, just email tupperwarec@hotmail.com with what you would like changed.

I have a question that's not here?

Send an email to tupperwarec@hotmail.com and I'll happily answer it 😀