Essential Bushfire Safety Guide, Paperback

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.