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Independent project. State of Readiness is not (yet) affiliated with, or formally endorsed by, the NSW Rural Fire Service. It's built around the NSW RFS district / Area Command / State Operations structure as its first fit — not limited to that one agency or jurisdiction.

NSW Rural Fire Service · District readiness

Set your district's readiness once. Everyone sees it live.

State of Readiness is the digital replacement for the paper activation checklist district, Area Command and State Operations staff work through each fire season. Enter today's Fire Behaviour Index once — the escalation level, the actions that level demands, and the pre-emptive IMT roster all follow automatically, shared with everyone who needs it.

  • One reading sets the whole day. FBI → Fire Danger Rating → Readiness Level, from your district's own thresholds.
  • Everyone on the same picture. No more the-latest-PDF-is-in-someone's-inbox.
  • Works offline, exports to PDF. Built for the fire control centre, not just the desk.

Built around the NSW RFS district, Area Command and State Operations model — covering all 44 districts, and adaptable to other fire and emergency services.

The core idea

One reading drives the whole posture.

Nobody argues about what level today is. Enter the day's Fire Behaviour Index and the app maps it — through your district's own editable thresholds — to a Fire Danger Rating, then to one of four escalation levels. Only that level's real actions surface.

Enter FBI 58
Rating Extreme
Readiness Level 2
Surfaces 8 actions + roster

Who it's for

Made for the people running the district.

Duty & On-Call Officers

Set today's level in seconds and see exactly which actions your district owes at that level — with a note field for who's doing each one.

District & Area office staff

Fill the pre-emptive Appendix 1 roster once. Every one of the 41 roles shows filled or empty, so gaps are obvious before you ever activate.

Group Officers & brigades

One shared contact list and readiness picture across the group — and email a whole role or Area Command in a single click when it's time to brief.

What it does

Everything the paper form did — plus what paper never could.

Cascading readiness checklist

The right level's real actions, not a generic to-do list — each with an optional note for who's doing it.

Pre-emptive IMT roster

All 41 Appendix 1 roles — filled at a glance.

One shared, live picture

Deployed, every device stays in sync in real time — set the level once, everyone sees it live.

live across devices

Contacts, always current

Search the distribution list, filter by group, email a whole group in one click.

Offline & on the record

Installs as an app, keeps working with no signal, and exports the full activation to a PDF for the file.

Foundation shipped · state-wide roll-up on the roadmap

Built for one district. Structured for the whole state.

The Districts & Areas hierarchy — all 7 NSW RFS Area Commands and 44 districts — is already editable in the app. That's the data model a future roll-up needs: every district's level feeding its Area, every Area feeding one state-wide picture — instead of 44 district offices each keeping their own spreadsheet.