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Bushfires NT

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Maggie Towers - Senior Risk Planner at Bushfires NT, will be presenting as a panellist during Session 1.5 - Fire in the Top End: NT Panel.

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Bushfires NT exists to help protect life, property and the environment from bushfire. It's the lead government agency for rural bushfire management in the Northern Territory.

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Under its jurisdiction, there are five fire management zones in the NT:

  • Vernon Arafura

  • Arnhem

  • Savanna

  • Barkly and Alice Springs.

 

Bushfires NT works with landowners and the wider community to manage bushfire in the Northern Territory by:

  • providing support for mitigation, management and suppression activities and

  • coordinating landowner and volunteer participation in response to significant fires.

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Bushfires NT also supports over 500 active volunteers in 20 Volunteer Bushfire Brigades across the Northern Territory by providing training, vehicles and operational funding.

Bushfires NT’s role is to:

  • support land managers to maintain and implement fire management strategies

  • administer the Bushfires Management Act 2016

  • strengthen community capacity and resilience in fire management

  • participate in bushfire management as necessary

  • support bushfire management research development and innovation

  • engage the broader community in fire management.

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