VicEmergency

Department of Justice and Community Safety

About this app

VicEmergency is the official Victorian Government app for emergency warnings and information. Download VicEmergency, set up a user profile and watch zones to ensure you receive official warnings and information for areas that interest you.

Watch the VicEmergency video at www.youtube.com/channel/UCskGgVGdfEp1C3BMiiwAyzQ
To review support articles or submit a request, visit http://support.emergency.vic.gov.au

Main Features:
• Live incident map showing current warnings, planned burns and other types of incidents across Victoria.***
• Simple to create a profile and use watch zones that ensure you get official warnings for your local area. Warnings and information* are pushed out to a user's phone when issued by Victoria’s emergency services. 
• GPS integration to determine your current location** and surrounding incidents. 
• Emergency Warnings, Warnings, Advice and information as issued by Victoria’s emergency services
• Share incidents and warnings with friends and family.
• View forecast Fire Danger Ratings on the map.
• View today's and tomorrow’s Total Fire Ban status.

* Your device must have an internet connection to receive warnings and information issued by Victorian emergency services. 
** To view your current location, GPS must be switched on and location functionality enabled.
*** Map symbols represent the origin of the emergency, not its current location or spread.

The VicEmergency app is just one tool to assist you to access warnings and information about emergencies, however you should never rely on just one information channel. Emergency services use a range of other information channels including SKY TV, ABC local radio, some commercial and designated community radio stations, VicEmergency Hotline on 1800 226 226, VicEmergency website on www.emergency.vic.gov.au and VicEmergency Twitter and Facebook.

What's New in this Version?
• Addition of other types of emergencies e.g. flood, earthquake, storms, tsunami, shark sightings etc
• Addition of user profile so watch zones can be accessed across multiple devices
• Integration of user profiles and watch zones with the VicEmergency website
• Addition of landscape view for all screens
• Addition of custom tone for notifications
• Addition of edit function for all aspects of watch zones
• Addition of warning notifications by email

Are you getting a message asking Allow "VicEmergency" to access to your location? You need to allow access to see incidents and warnings for your current location. The steps for this will vary depending on your device, model and version of android, but should be similar to this:
• Open device settings
• Select applications
• Select manage applications
• Choose VicEmergency from the list
• Tick the ‘show notifications’ box at the top of the screen

Ratings and reviews

I use it all the time during summer to keep track of fires near me... But there needs to be different alert sounds! I have just been told 3 times in the space of a couple of hours that there is a flood warning! Repetitive Wind warnings with no additional information, ect, I am forced to turn the app off most of the year. if there was options for sounds, vibration ect for each warning type then I could set the real dangers for an alarming sound, and have silent notifocations for the rest!

Good app, but..... I'm getting too many notifications. I am beginning to ignore them. I don't need heat warnings - I can see the forecast. I don't need Total Fire Ban notifications - that's already well communicated through other channels. Too much. Every day, so many needless non emergency notifications (total fire ban, air quality and a run of hot days are not emergencies to me.) I've turned off all notifications that i can. Please make all (TFB,heat warning etc) notifications configurable.

Still too many alerts, most of which aren't relevant to me, and can't be turned off. I reinstalled it recently, because of the heat waves, but I don't let interrupt my sleep. For safety, I'd like to have both a "near me" and a "wider area" zone, and turn off alerts only for the wider zone when asleep.

What’s new

Update for new BoM links fix.