As communities recover from NSW's worst bushfire season on record, firefighters have their sights set on this summer.
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Burrawang Rural Fire Service Deputy Captain Elizabeth Ellis has warned residents not to be complacent this summer.
"One third of our national parks land has been burnt. That means there's two thirds to burn," Ms Ellis said.
"While all the statistics were horrifying, not everything in NSW burnt.
"It only takes a month of dry hot weather and we're back in square one again."
The bushfire danger period for the Southern Highlands is scheduled to start on October 1 and is expected to run until March 31.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Burrawang brigade has decided not to run face-to-face events for the NSW Rural Fire Service's annual Get Ready campaign.
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Instead the team has launched an online, four-step program to equip residents with life-saving information.
The challenge, which starts on September 1, is attracting state-wide attention across the NSW RFS network.
Deputy Captain Ellis said the key messaging in the challenge "is applicable to wherever you live" and was modelled on the Rural Fire Service's Prepare, Act, Survive principles.
"We're keen for people to start working through the challenge," she said.
"We encourage everyone to come on board and participate."
Deputy Captain Ellis said a common mistake residents made in the past was not personalising their bushfire risk-management plans.
The online challenge will help residents plan for their own individual situations.
"People might recognise there's a risk but they might not personalise it," she said.
"They think 'yes, there's a risk but it probably won't happen to me' or 'we're not really too close to the forest, it doesn't really apply to me'. This is a very human thing.
"I think last year's fire season has shaken that particular attitude."
Ms Ellis said she hoped to sign up at least a few hundred people to the challenge.
"What we're hoping to do is reach the kind of people who wouldn't normally come to a face-to-face meeting," she said.
"The families with small children who might not normally come along to an afternoon tea, absentee landlords with houses down here and people who have very busy lifestyles who might otherwise be travelling."
Visit https://burrawangrfb.org/community-resources/week-one to start week one of the challenge.