Photo taken on Dec. 20, 2019 shows fire trucks working at Lexton bush fire site in western Victoria, Australia. (Wayne Riggs/CFA/Handout via Xinhua) As more people are living in high-risk bushfire areas and the climate is rapidly changing, an Australian expert said the country spends "too...
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in VictoriaGonzalez-Mathiesen, ConstanzaMarch, AlanLeonard, JustinHolland, MarkBlanchi, RaphaeleAustralian Journal of Emergency Management
Sometimes, people who look after wild areas will start acontrolled fireto help manage the land. These fires arecarefully plannedand monitored to make sure that they don’t put anyone at risk of danger. Controlled fires help to prevent large-scale, out-of-control bushfires by clearingdry leave...
Bushfires are currently burning in Australian states including Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia. In some areas, fire authorities have warned residents about the presence of smoke. Feb 23, 2024 0 0 Health Office air conditioning can reduce the risk of harm from bushfire...
What's more,bushfire expertspredict an increased fire risk across vast regions of the continent. Already this season, anout-of-control bushfire struck Creswick in central Victoriaafter Monday's extreme heat. All this is a dangerous cocktail for theelectricity grid. Increasing temperatures puts a st...
Fig. 6. Bushfire aftermath for 2001–2020 fire seasons in Victoria: a) Burned areas and number of fires for each season; b) Houses and lives lost for each season. Color of a plot corresponds to a specific axis. The number of fires in Victoria has been increasing in the last 20 years...
Around 50 homes were also confirmed to have been lost in Victoria -- a number expected to significantly increase as assessment crews further accessed affected areas. Already the total number of homes destroyed by bushfires this season is over 1400. ...
Arecent study in Chinareported long-term exposure to a high concentration of ultrafine particles called PM2.5 (which we find in bushfire smoke) is linked to an increased risk of stroke. We also know the dose of exposure is important. So the worse the pollution, the greater the the health ...
The first is the need to adapt to a future where such fires will likely be increasing, threatening non metropolitan urban communities directly as well as settlements in the bush and forested areas around the cities. The second is how settlements in the burnt areas rebuild in order to be part...
Australia is made up of large unpopulated areas of wilderness that are extremely difficult to reach. Once a fire starts in one of these regions, the naturally dry and dense Australian bush can quickly become consumed by flames and spread beyond what fire crews are able to contain. ...