Natural disasters and severe weather events

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• Before an event
  • Household evacuation kit
  • Household emergency kit
  • Emergency pantry list for Queensland households
  • Food for infants in emergencies
  • Emergency pantry list for breastfed infants
  • Emergency pantry list for formula-fed infants
  • Preparing infant formula in an emergency
• During an event
• Storms cyclones and flood
  • After an event - stay safe during clean-up
  • Stay safe and healthy during storm floods cyclones
  • Returning to a disaster affected house or building
  • Dealing with mould after a storm, flood or cyclone
  • Cleaning and/or removing asbestos materials
  • Ensuring safe drinking water
  • Restoring rainwater tanks affected by disasters
  • Food safety in an emergency
  • Mosquito-borne diseases after a storm/flood
  • Controlling mosquito breeding after floods
  • Black flies-a public health risk after a flood
  • Use and disposal of drugs/poisons after a disaster
  • Accessing PDS subsidised medicines
  • Health advise for emergency response workers
• Bushfire
  • During and after a fire - stay safe and healthy
  • Bushfire staying safe and healthy
  • Bushfire staying safe during clean up
  • Asbestos and fire damaged buildings
  • Bushfires and roof harvested rainwater
• Heat event
  • Before and during a heat event
  • Stay healthy in the heat
  • Heat-related illness
  • Prevent heat related illness - babies and children
  • Prevent heat related illness - seniors
• Evacuation centre resources
• Queensland public health units
• Toolbox

During an event

Stay connected

During a natural disaster event or extreme weather event, keep up-to-date with the latest information available. There are a number of services that can assist:

• Queensland Alert
• Emergency contacts
• Tune in to your local radio station
• Australian early warning network
• Find your local council

Queensland Alert

Queensland Alert (QLDAlert) is a government website that provides up-to-date information to the public during an emergency or disaster, including road closures.

Emergency contacts

Services	Phone
Emergency	000
State Emergency Service (SES)	132 500
Bureau of Meteorology
Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ)
Road conditions and closures	1300 130 595 (statewide 24 hours)
RSPCA	1300 363 736
Queensland Government	13 74 68
National Relay Service	13 36 77 (TTY/voice) 1300 555 777 (listen and speak)
Power supply (dangerous situations or downed power lines)	Energex - 13 19 622 (Southeast Queensland only) Ergon Energy - 13 16 70 (all other Queensland residents)
Power supply (loss of supply)	Energex - 13 62 62 (Southeast Queensland only) Ergon Energy - 13 22 96 (all other Queensland residents)
Telephone services	Telstra - 132 203 Optus - 133 937

Tune in to your local radio station

Make sure you have a battery-operated radio ready as part of your household emergency kit and you can tune into your local station for weather updates and community service announcements.

• Find your local AM or FM commercial radio station frequency
• Find your local ABC radio station.

Australian Early Warning Network

Register for free severe weather alerts. Choose to receive an email, SMS or recorded message to your home phone if potentially dangerous weather is heading your way. You can learn more and register on the Australian Early Warning Network.

Contact your local council

Contact your local council for information for your specific location.

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