QLD Fires Negative Reviews

QLD Fires App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

QLD Fires app received 17 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using QLD Fires? Can you share your negative thoughts about qld fires?

QLD Fires for Negative User Reviews

✓ MapsThe map needs help. There will be a fire icon 10-20kms away from the actual fire. Needs to be more like NSW fire app. They have black outlines of where the actual fire is..Karise11Version: 2.2.1

✓ Not as good as the vic emergency appThe app is ok but don’t keep you upto date with things, when we lived in Victoria we used the vic emergency app which was great and you was kept up today with everything. This app could be as great as that one.IllinbahVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Location issuesApp won’t select my location it is way out which means notifications aren’t working properly either.LocationlostVersion: 2.2.2

✓ Why did i buy this App?This App is useless...my mother lives in Peregian Springs....updates are very irregular and when updates are posted they are simply a copy of the post from yesterday sometimes 24hrs or more old....whats the point of publishing an update if theres nothing new to advise!.Djjz007Version: 2.2.2

✓ Works sporadicallyThe watch zones are a great part of this app but they’re unreliable and setting them up only works occasionally. Not so handy when you’re out in the bush with only 3G access to the internet..FlyinthruworldsVersion: 2.2.1

✓ Was good to start withI really used to appreciate this app giving information on nearby fires. However recently the developers added road crashes/rescues, and the app pings constantly. I haven’t found a way to switch off the notifications for crashes, and so this app has become very annoying. I’m thinking about deleting it altogether..ZαpVersion: 2.3.7.0

✓ GlitchesThe app seems to have developed a few bugs especially trying to delete watch zones or set up new ones. Getting told “ unsuccessful, try again later” This problem remains unresolved months later. In addition I know that there have been a number of fires that are active through Fire Com Northcoast that do not appear on the app..Qld RFB volunteerVersion: 2.2.2

✓ Nsw and Qld Fire appThis qld Fire app is currently not working I have been to Telstra and they assure me it’s the fault of the app. I have the app but it will no longer load info I re installed my address and it won’t accept it. How can I know where these fires are I also tried the nsw fire app and it’s the same I don’t know the names of a lot of places and I have been looking at the map on the app but not working. I have had these apps for a few years with no issues but I’ll now. Pls inform me of what I can do to make these work again thanks.RockineviVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Not impressedI just bought this app minutes ago. So far not that impressed. Could be useful to create a watch zone “other” than only where you currently are. Also the rain radar needs work, seriously. Hopefully the team behind it do some improvement..OdizeoVersion: 2.2.2

✓ Has potentialSome good features but needs some work. ‘New’ fire alerts are good but what about updates esp alert level updates. An evac notice was issued on the wkend but nothing from the app...???! Some description of colour coding on Sentinel info would be good also. I love the idea of the ‘watch area’ but what does it do? I look forward to the updates. If you could get QFES to provide timely and useful info that would be great too🤣 Also; in settings pls allow a change of alert ‘noise/chime’. I am an RFS member... the difference between a FB message and a possible fire alert is important! Further (if poss!) are you able to over ride my ‘do not disturb’ setting? This could allow me to be at the truck before i receive a ‘call out’. If at all possible have a look at the info which was available via the old ‘Emergency Aus’ app. It was REALLY GOOD. One final essential (but wishful!) thought... fires dont understand lines on a map. State borders are irrelevant! ( yes i have Fires NSW app but really???!... see my review there).Purple kit walkerVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Melbourne Street BoonahA small rubbish fire which was extinguished within a few hours continues to be reported as ‘going’ with 16 vehicles on site and 5 on route 5 days after it was extinguished. Thus makes every other report we are monitoring seriously suspect as to status..Cannon CreekVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Fire on Moreton IslandWe have been watching the fires on Moreton Island from Flinders Beach on Stradbroke Island but they are not showing on your app. We looked at your app this afternoon and saw that here was a fire on Flinders Beach Road. We rang friends who live at Flinders Beach and are members of The Rural Fire Brigade to make sure they were safe? They knew nothing about a fire. So how accurate is this app? Can we rely on it?.Ann of AmityVersion: 2.2.1

✓ Reviews are rigged.No where near as good as the vic fires app, which is odd as it’s the same developer. “Nearest fire” is hopeless, we are near Gympie (Cooran) & nearest fire takes the map inland from Brisbane! Can’t set a watch area either, we could on the Vic fires app so not sure why this QLD version is so short of working useful features? Very disappointed..EgdebutterVersion: 2.1.0

✓ A handy appA great app for keeping up to date with warnings. It would be better if the active fires’ borders were marked on the map, rather than just the one point where it started ..K . M . EVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Ridiculous- and dangerous.Downloaded this app after reading all review of ‘brilliant!’, ‘must have!’ and ‘essential!’. What a load of tosh. Have had around 10 notifications come through for fires in my area, only to open the app and there’s no information there. Look out the window and there’s smoke everywhere, can hear the fire trucks - but there’s NOTHING in the app!! Do we evacuate? Stay put? Catch our animals and prepare? Who knows!! Certainly not the app!! It’s reckless to have an app like this. People pay thinking they can rely on it. What a joke. It endangers lives when developers fail to follow through on apps like this one!.GrimmGemVersion: 2.1.0

✓ Like the app but...Like the idea of this app but in the last month or so I am getting notifications for fires from 2 weeks or more ago but the notifications for new or current fires are not coming through. Would love the opportunity to have a siren of some description for new alerts near me as a different sound to FB alerts that I generally ignore. Can there be a different alert from fires in relation to trucks not being at fire station as I nearly had a heart attack when a “fire” broke out in Gympie (several times), turns out it is just when the truck is out of the station. Lastly less confusing info about the fires eg. the fire at Black Snake (Kilkivan) states that there are multiple warnings for this fire however I can’t find more than one warning which relates to a very small area and had to go to Facebook to get more info but had to sift thru a lot of other fires to get the info I needed. Just want to say that you are doing a great job, just not sure if you knew of these glitches..Miss Josephine71Version: 2.1.0

✓ 1 address?I want to enter a future address of where I am moving to in a month but it keeps reverting back to my current address which I didn’t even have to enter, it just pinned me here but it’s not even the reason I got the app! Really silly. I’ve looked everywhere to change it and haven’t been able to. Happy to change my review if I can be shown where to do this..RLSSSMITHVersion: 2.1.0

QLD Fires works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact QLD Fires.