Emergency alerts
When it matters, your page says so
Floods, fires, road closures, a burst main, the hall shut for the weekend. An alert banners across your whole page within about a minute, and clears just as fast when it is over. Official NSW RFS and Bureau of Meteorology warnings for your area arrive on their own.
One warning, every page in town
A hub issues once. Every community linked underneath shows it too, credited to the hub that issued it, so the whole town sees the same thing at the same time.
A warning for your area arrives from the Bureau.
How the warnings work
The standard warning colours
Advice, Watch and Act, and Emergency Warning: the same three levels and colours used across Australia, so nobody has to learn a new system in the middle of a flood.
Straight from the RFS
Major incidents from the NSW Rural Fire Service feed, the one behind Hazards Near Me, checked every five minutes and matched to your town by distance.
Bureau flood and storm warnings
Land warnings for New South Wales, matched to your river and district by name, so a Manning River warning reaches Manning River towns.
It cascades down the town
An alert issued by a town hub appears on every group linked under it, labelled with who issued it. One person acts; the whole district is covered.
Local groups can speak up
A group in your town can raise a notice on the town's page itself. It is capped at Advice and always credited by name, so a community heads-up can never be mistaken for an official warning.
Clearing is one press
When it is over, clear it. The banner disappears everywhere and the alert moves to a recently-cleared list for a fortnight, so people can see what happened.
What this is, and what it is not
OurHub is a noticeboard, not an emergency service. We relay public warnings on a best-effort basis and a feed can be delayed or wrong. It does not replace the RFS, the SES, the Bureau, Hazards Near Me, or your radio.
In a life-threatening emergency, always call 000 first.
Incident data © State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service), used under CC BY 4.0. Warning data © Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Always confirm through official channels.
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