Essential Bushfire Safety Tips - 3rd Edition by Joan Webster Oam (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.





Review Quotes






"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.