Essential Bushfire Safety Tips

by Joan Webster OAM

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648845935
Publisher:	Melliodora Publishing
Publication date:	05/19/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	190
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joan Webster's groundbreaking first book on bushfire safety, The Complete Australian Bushfire Book (1986) was shortlisted for the BHP Pursuit of Excellence Award 1987. This, and its subsequent The Complete Bushfire Safety Book and ready reference Essential Bushfire Safety Tips, have been acclaimed by Bushfire authorities throughout Australia and overseas; readers say they have helped save their lives and homes. Her 25 years as news reporter/photographer and journalist, gained her a reputation for 'getting things done'. This characteristic surfaced very young - aged only six - leading to the Australian Fire Protection Association's Community Service Award, 1990, and culminating in 2010 with the Order of Australia Medal for her 40 years plus work on bushfire safety.

Table of Contents

Foreword

The 3 Core Bushfire Safety Primer

Introduction

1. Understanding bushfire
2. The killer factors
3.  he survival factors
4. How bushfire destroys houses
5. The home as a haven
6. A protective home site
7. A protective property layout
8. A protective garden
9. A protective house design
10. Protective furnishings
11. Shelters, refuges and bunkers
12. Protective equipment
13. Water for protection
14. Planning ahead
15. Township protection
16. Protective chores
17. Safe burn-offs
18. Protecting domestic animals, stock and sanctuaries
19. Protective travelling
20. Evacuate, defend or shelter?
21. What to do when bushfire threatens
22. First aid for bushfire injuries

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the author

Editorial Reviews

"Though Essential Bushfire Safety Tips is written for Australia, its lessons are universal." - The Natural Hazards Observer, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado-Boulder

'An outstanding achievement, a book that could certainly help save lives within the community' - Country Fire Authority Victoria, Australia.

"Essential Bushfire Safety Tips was essential reading and definitely saved lives and property in Kangaroo Valley on January 4, 2020. Kangaroo Valley is now, arguably, the best example of a prepared community. Much of our preparedness was on account of your book Essential Bushfire Safety Tips and talking to you." - Capt Matthew Gray Chairman, Community Bushfire Planning Committee, NSW, Australia.

"Thank you for everything you have done for all of us in the wildl and urban interface. Needless to say, your work has had a tremendous and very beneficial impact over here." - Adrian Cameron, Designer, Training Program for Volunteers, Fire Safe Council, Nevada County, California, USA

"In my opinion, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips is the best written on the subject of how to prepare oneself, their home and to be acutely aware of the area they live in. The researched and accurate information supplied in the book can only contribute to the saving of lives and property. - John Peacock, ex-CFA, Victoria, Australia.

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