VicEmergency
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| VicEmergency |   nine.com.au |   Alert SA |   ABC News |   The Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating / 5 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| Reviews | 774 | 119K | 11K | 6.6K | 3K |
| Released | 2010 | 2015 | 2019 | 2009 | 2018 |
| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | $17.99 |
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VicEmergency reviews
3.0 out of 5, based on 774 reviews.
What people like
- Shows real-time updates and live data clearly
- Maps are accurate down to the fence lines
- Easy to set up a watch zone quickly
What they complain about
- Spams you with useless notifications constantly
- Breaks easily when the phone is in focus mode
- Gives alerts for fires way outside your zone
Keeps you safe
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Very glitchy
This app doesn’t work for me I try to login keeps telling me my password is wrong and I know it’s not. I have reset my password 5 times it keeps telling me it’s wrong. It just seems very glitchy
Good app but has issues.
The app tells me what I need to know, but has a couple of issues. I had the app in 2022 during the floods but because the app didn’t push through while the phone was in ‘focus’ mode it didn’t push through. It took me a while to find out how to correct that. During the last potential flooding period the warnings came through but they weren’t actively canceled, just removed.
Outdated location data
My address is not found when creating a watching zone. My house was built over four years so, it is unbelievable that it cannot be found in your data base considering the purpose of this app.
Updating information
I find this app very useful and easy to use but it needs to update more often. I see a notification for a planned burn that was 23 days ago. Does this mean it’s still going to happen?
Really good and helpful
Very helpful when you get worried about a accident
Irrelevant Notification Spam
I had to delete this garbage. No matter what, this app will spam you with countless irrelevant notifications. So much so that you end up ignoring them and missing important information. Counter productive, this will acclimatise you into ignoring their warnings. Vic gov would have been better off using the money to improve their emergency services, instead they wasted it on this.
Add stuff mate
Telling u where fires are is good but maybe add other incidents and crimes so we can see stuff
Could be a good app
Could be good but the notification spam for weather and apples terrible notification stacking it hides important notifications, app developer needs to work with apple to make the app better for emergency monitoring.
Too may notifications
I think this is a good and important app. However… I have the notifications set to the minimum for my watch zone so that I will get warning if there’s serious threat of bushfire. On a total fire ban day, I get no less than 13 almost identical notifications just to inform me that conditions are dangerous. This is a ridiculous level of notifications. You need to understand that more notifications DOES NOT lead to higher awareness. It leads to habitually ignoring ANY notifications because 99% of them are not important. It’s effectively the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect. If there is ever a really important safety message that I should receive in my watch zone, I will miss it simply because I’ve learned to ignore and delete notifications from this app. Or at best, ignore them at the time and scroll through them later to see if there was anything important. I actually think the amount of superfluous notifications in this app is dangerous. It encourages complacency. On a related note, there is no distinction in the app between a life threatening bushfire and a single bush that’s caught fire in the suburbs somewhere. We need to reserve the word bushfire for community level emergencies. That word needs to strike fear into the hearts of those who hear it. Seeing a notification that there’s a bushfire in my suburb, and then finding out that the incident was a small shrub that smoked a bit and a passing fireman put it out by throwing a bucket of water on it again encourages me to ignore warnings from the app as sensationalised. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be notified of those incidents, but don’t call them bushfires. We all know the damage, fear and chaos a real bushfire can cause. Let’s not diminish the meaning of a bushfire warning by teaching people to react with “oh it’s probably nothing. It’s never anything”.
Helpful very good job on working this app ppl
Very good it helps me especially today. When there is catastrophic fire danger up to 43 degrees. And yeah make it not need internet to use
Super spam‼️‼️
A literal spam machine multiple times a day with unimportant nonsense about how hot it will be 500km away from you. I would like the app if it gave useful information. Have now uninstalled it 3 times. I guess this is the final time. A great idea ruined by spam.
A few suggested changes…
Totally appreciate the app. Here’s my wish list. It all relates to the “filter” option: 1. I want to be able to set “impact area” as “permanently on”. It’s annoying having to turn it on every time I change maps or watch zones. 2. I want to be able to view wind direction and speed AND impact zone at the same time. Same issue as 1 - can I please set options “on” and they stay on and load multiple options. 3. As well as “impact area”, it would be amazing if we could see approximately where the fire front is or where there is active burning. This one may be counter productive so feel free to disregard it. But 1&2 - please!!!!
Rubbish from the government
Can’t even get it going because for some reason it wants a payment method then won’t accept it. Why does the vic government want payment anyyway!!
Valuable but flawed
An app that is truly needed. There is a lot to like but there needs to be greater fidelity for notifications. What happens is i get too many irrelevant notifications and run the risk of ignoring them and potentially missing the ones that count. Allow me to choose whether i want to be notified for a specific categories such as tfb declared. When i see a notification popping up i want it to be a real issue not just informational.
Amazing
It did what it needed to do it was easy to set a watch zone !five stars!
Disappointed
Won’t let you easily change locations, constantly resets to other addresses
Straightforward
Pretty simple and straightforward.
Glitches
I get warnings for events way outside my set zone, dozens of kilometres away. I get the warnings multiple times; three warnings today for a minor fire halfway across town. Just now I’ve got two bushfires apparently burning within 100s of metres of my place and not a single notification. (Friends notified me on Facebook Messenger.) This is quite a dangerous situation, State of Victoria - Dept of Things
Address search not working
Current bug with address search not working even if you just type the suburb it defaults to all of vic view on pressing enter. And when messages get updated for a warning it’d be good to get a blue dot next to the part that changed as it’s hard to work out what has updated in multi paragraph text while packing a car or fleeing a fire.
Amazing
I love this App, it’s in real time and esp for bushfires informs you how many for trucks are in attendance
Fake
Fake app with fake notifications of fires all the time yet there is no fire or smoke outside anywhere
Fire rating overlay makes it very difficult to use
I know that most overlay options can be removed via the filter options, but I can’t seem to be able to remove the transparent red catastrophic fire rating overlay and it is making it so much more difficult to see the actual warnings relevant to the Longwood fire. Once I am well aware it’s a catastrophic fire rating day, I don’t need that overlay on the entire day, impacting my ability to clearly see actual fire impact and warnings.
Buffer animation
Suggestion: place a buffering animation on the front page so we know it is active. A still first page is NOT inviting.
Load please
On my notifications there’s a grass fire in my watch zone I try to go into the app and it’s not loading! And it’s worrying that a app ment for telling me emergencies isn’t loading it definitely needs some fixes I recommend getting another app as well as this incase it won’t work. Otherwise the apps pretty good
This is an amazing
This is truly amazing. I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere. I now live in Boston USA and our family have a farm at Strathbogie near Euroa/Seymour. I have been in the CFA and SES and the quality of maps and updates is amazing. The ease of use and live data is exceptional. For a running fight when fighting bush fires and when you are on a tanker and the flames are surrounding you it is essential to know where farm fences run and it is accurate within feet on all the fences l know The other emergency features on trees down health etc show the massive effort being used. A truly remarkable Ap. It should be shared with every emergency management department around the world it will absolutely save human lives without question I was so impressed l forwarded a screenshot the other day to the director of the state emergency management here in MA USA
Alert overload
I installed this app and set my settings to only get alerted about bushfires near me however the app pushes alerts about air quality and all sorts of other junk continuously with no way to stop it. Unfortunately I’ve had to disable the app on my phone now.
Suggestion for notifications
After a recent fire in our area I think a good addition to this app would be adding the option to turn on critical alerts in notification settings for watch and acts, leave now and to late to leave or have it automatically set for critical alerts for watch and acts, leave now and to late to leave and give people the option to opt out if they do not wish to have critical alerts on Thank you
Desperate for an update
I get random notifications for areas 100’s of km’s from me and outside my watch zones. Have deleted, reconfigured. Always ends up the same. This app needs an overhaul
Slow to the point of uselessness
While on one hand an old iPhone 3GS isn't exactly a racehorse, there is nothing in this app that should require the added oomph of an iPhone 5. As it stands the app is klunky and non-responsive. Updates take forever. To put it flippantly: if you rely on this, you may find flames licking on your doorstep before it shows you a current status! Badly needs refactoring and performance tuning! For now I'll rely on the website on and on ABC radio.
Very innovative
Heard about this app through an Australian friend. Simply amazing. The developer and the government department who initiated this is to be congratulated! All fire authorities should make development of apps like this standard. Well done!
Crying Wolf
When I receive frequent app notifications for NOT urgent alerts like air quality and a Total Fire Ban Day eventually I learn to ignore the sound and icon or actually get so annoyed that I completely mute the app. Then, if there was ever an actually critically urgent Watch Zone notification alert like Evacuate Now, I will probably not read it in time.
VicEmergency
It’s a good little app. I live on the border of Vic/SA and also use AlertSA. On the SA app. under notifications, it allows u to choose to receive critical alerts even when other notifications are silenced because of “focus” or “sleep” mode. I believe it would be more effective if u made this possible.
Asks for unnecessary personal information
Asks for unnecessary information. Why does VicEmergencyneed my name and email address? I am sick of having my email address sold on. I have specified that I do not want emails, so my name and email address are none of your business. I do not live in Victoria, I am checking on information of fires near family and friends.
Total fire ban warning not incident
Why is a total fire ban under incidents and not warnings? Completely missed today being a total fire ban because I checked under warnings and not incidents. Surely it belongs under warnings or even put it under both. Now I will check both but I feel the logic is wrong.
So many notifications
Having so many notification takes away from the ones that are actually important.
Great content!
Very innovative app and great content!!!! Would recommend a return/ back to app button when linked to website so you don't have to re-open app to explore other features.
Needs improving
Coming from NSW, finding VIC Emergency App (VEA) far less useful and more confusing to use. Geographical areas are defined by their state of emergency (watch/ leave etc) and coloured; with icons indicating hazards or dangers. The coloured zones become a distracting layer above the more useful icons: which have to selected for more details individually, frustrating it if it just for a fallen tree. NSW have different coloured icons; and most usefully, show the perimeter of the fire. This allows locals to monitor how quickly it is growing; in what direction; and changes in time. The NSW app was clearer to gain information.
VicEmergency FAQ
- Is VicEmergency free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does VicEmergency have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to VicEmergency?
- nine.com.au (4.5 from 119,321 reviews), Alert SA (4.6 from 10,865 reviews) and ABC News (3.8 from 6,643 reviews).
VicEmergency download
Last updated 1 month ago.
VicEmergency sells in 175 countries. It was released 16 years and 6 months ago, on 13 Mar 2010. It holds a 3.0 rating from 774 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
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