The Bureau of Meteorology app will use your location information to alert you to severe weather events happening near you, including; dangerous thunderstorms and cyclones, elevated fire danger and heatwave conditions, riverine and flash flooding.
WA's Department of Fire and Emergency Services say it only takes 15 minutes to make your bushfire plan with this app which leads you through a series of questions and check lists to help you decide the right plan for you and your family,.
Save your key contacts, get links to your local emergency services agencies, make simple checklists for an emergency, and share your emergency plan using this app developed by the Red Cross.
A pocket guide to first aid and CPR, this app includes videos, images and quizzes to refresh your first aid knowledge.
If you don't have a scanner you can take photos of any paper copies of important documents and keep them in a special 'album' on your phone.
If you have digital copies of important documents, you can email them to yourself and file them in an easy to find folder.
If you have cloud storage, it's a good idea to keep an Important Documents folder regularly updated.
Phone coverage can be impacted when key infrastructure is damaged during a disaster.(Supplied: Telstra)
The ABC's audio streaming app, allowing you to listen to local programs and emergency broadcasts from any ABC Radio station around Australia.
The Emergency+ app has been developed by Australian emergency services, government and industry. It helps you ring triple-0 and provides you with your GPS coordinates so you can tell an operator where you are.
What3Words makes it easier to convey your GPS coordinates in case you need rescuing by emergency services. W3W has divided the world map into individual locations, each of which have been allocated three random English words to identify them. You can use the combination of words to convey your exact location to rescuers.
. Step-by-step emergency first aid.
This app helps people with asthma, hayfever and other lung conditions by showing weather information like air quality, pollen count and temperature.
Any high point, like this one in the Riverina, is an opportunity to check for phone signal.(ABC Open: tilly_jak)
Some agencies have developed mobile websites rather than apps which work in a similar way.
You can pin a website to your phone's home screen just like an app:
On an iPhone, tap the "Share" button in your browser, then tap "Add to Home Screen"
On an Android phone with the Chrome browser, tap the "Menu" button in your browser and select "Add to Home Screen"
The SMS alerts can include fire information like total fire bans.(Facebook: Vic Emergency)
Grazier Kristy Sparrow says having a back-up for communications is like having a back-up electricity.(ABC News: Pip Courtney)
Satellite phones can be vital for people in remote areas.(ABC Capricornia: Rachel McGhee)
Using , you can press and hold anywhere on the map, such as your location marked with a blue dot, to drop a red pin. Tapping on the pin will bring up information including the coordinates.
If you use , tap the blue dot on the map representing your location, which will call up data including the coordinates.
The app provides easy access to your GPS coordinates.
The app uses a combination of ordinary words to provide your latitude and longitude.