Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions.
Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips:
- demystifies bushfire behaviour
- takes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and danger
- details each stage of preparing for and responding to the various types of bushfire threat
- defines safe and unsafe ways to act at each stage of risk
- clarifies the benefits and hazards of defending, sheltering and evacuation
- details how to prevent bushfire from destroying your home, even if evacuated
- explains why one house is untouched but the next is destroyed
- reveals research into why many people safely defended their homes while others did not
- facilitates informed choices for one''s own circumstances
- brings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can safely survive this annual summer peril.
