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

Pretty handy app and critical for me during the fire season to keep across what's happening. UPDATE:The map layer that shows wind strength and direction has stopped working. Used to work. For fires, you can quickly get an idea of the direction of fire spread with this layer, so it's not good that it's gone missing in the peak of summer.

Jeez, this would be a life saving app if it actually adhered to your notification restrictions. Getting 80+ notifications a day for "community notices" and other things that are toggled OFF means I'm never actually concerned enough to check the notifications. I don't need 12 updates per day that it's STILL a heat wave. I want to be able to filter out events that are under control or resolved too, and if an event is resolved before you've clicked on it, it should clear itself to avoid confusion

I have just installed this app but I cannot use it as it is stuck on requesting GPS access. We are actively being encouraged to download this app due to the bushfire threat today, however, for a few users, we are unable to move past the permission requests. I'm not the first to complain about this and it is disappointing that no one has resolved the issue.

What’s new

Update for new BoM links fix.