NSW Fires5.1 - App Store

This application is designed to provide up to date information about bush fire data in New South Wales, Australia.

It utilises data from the NSW Rural Fire Service RSS feeds on fires with your current location provided by the iPhone GPS.

Using this information the application is able to provide a list of fires showing the nearest ones first, helping you to understand your current situation.

The information is reliant on both the accuracy of the iPhone GPS and the data recorded on the RFS's website.

This application does not cache any data, so Internet access (either Wireless. 3G or GPRS) is required to access the data.

Be aware that while P4G has utilised "best efforts" to provide this information to you, it is not intended to replace other sources of information on the fire situation near you. Also remember that fire and weather can change quickly.

All data is provided Copyright from the NSW Rural Fire Service.

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Version History This fixes a few bugs around the rain radar and adds the instruction to warnings. 5.1 Feb 13 a fix to the data feed to get the updates to the incidents 5.0.2 06/24/2025 We have added the warnings that NSW provides. Hopefully this will help if there are other events and not just fires. 5.0 06/04/2025 This version is a small clean up of a variety of bugs that have crept into the app. 3.9.0 10/13/2023 Brings back the hot spots and adds fire ratings for the state 3.8.3 01/06/2022 Hopefully fixed the last of the issues discovered through iOS 15.1 3.8.2 11/04/2021 this version fixes an issue with iOS 15.1 3.8.1 11/02/2021 This version fixes a crash on startup since iOS 15.1 and adds the ability to create a widget for fires in a watch zone. 3.8.0 10/27/2021 This version allows the user to select dark or light modes and fixes an issue in saving watch zones. 3.7.3 01/06/2021 some minor fixes including not redrawing the fire areas every time the map is shown. 3.7.2 01/09/2020 Supports iOS 13 and dark mode 3.7.1 11/26/2019 This version introduces notifications of new fires in your watch zones. You can create a watch zone by either a long push on the map of your required location, or use the + button in the Watch Zone screen to use your current location (location services need to be turned on). 3.6.6 06/25/2018 Fixed an issue with fires not being mapped. 3.6.5 12/07/2015 Brought back the location of fires 3.6.1 10/27/2015 This version adds full support for iPhone 6 and 6+ as well as a few extra features such as Rain Radar. 3.6 09/16/2015 This version includes the following changes:-
- allows you to zoom to the nearest fire for the Google Map by clicking on the screen title (already available in the Apple Map)
- removes wind arrows when the information is older than 2 hours 3.5.2 12/21/2013 Fixes issue with the iPad version not updating the map with updated fire information. 3.5.1 11/22/2013 This version improves the look and feel on the iPad 3.5 11/18/2013 This version has been updated to make the most of the look and feel of iOS 7. We have also included the ability to select either Google or Apple maps to map the location of fires. 3.4 10/10/2013 This version adds the capability to sort the fires from a distance from specified locations. Great for determining if fires are near your house when you are not at home...

To use it press and hold on the map to select a location. 3.3 02/14/2013 This is a minor update to allow the user to map the location of a fire in the Google Maps application or the Apple Maps Application. Also some improvements in the social media interactions. 3.2.1 01/11/2013 - Fixed the distance on the details page.
- Added a new sort criteria based on Alerts.
- Fixed problem with selecting a satellite.
- Added fire perimeters where available.
- Brought the icons in line with RFS alert status's. 3.2 11/05/2012 fixed for iOS 6.0 and with support for iPhone 5. Also some cosmetic improvements to make the information clearer. 3.1 10/02/2012 Version 3.0 provides the following new features:
- you can now set automatic refresh so that as fires come and go, you can see them appear and disappear from the list or from the map.
- you can perform a search for a fire or fires of interest to you
- you can select to see only going fires, or even only safe fires.
- you can sort the fires in council sequence making it easy to determine which fires are in your area.
- you can now twitter information, to keep others up to date on fire details.
- you can turn off the wind data if you like.

We have also added satellite hotspots to the map to help understand the size and location of fires. This is experimental at the moment so would appreciate feedback. 3.0 12/06/2011 Made some minor User Interface improvements to :-
1) make it easier to see wind strength and direction
2) allow seeing an individual fire in the Google Maps application 2.3 05/17/2011