One of our NSW’s operatives, who is in regular contact with firefighters from the Rural Fire Service put that story to one of the RFS officers involved in fighting the fire. The response was gales of laughter. Not only is the idea that a crow can start a bushfire by whacki...
The apocalyptic Australian bushfires have challenged the way we plan settlements. What is the future for small urban settlements within fire-vulnerable forests and bushland? Could they create a new model for rural settlements with wider lessons for development in big cities? This paper draws togethe...
Fire behaviour analysts in an incident management team, often stationed at an operations centre near the fire, collate this information and then run the model to predict the likely progression of the fire across the landscape. CSIRO project leader Dr Miguel Cruz said the model used the latest av...
Smoke from large fires in 2013 in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales (NSW) was demonstrated to have had detrimental impacts on air quality as far away as Brisbane, Queensland as well as in closer population centres such as Sydney and Wollongong, NSW. (Duc et al. 2018). ...
Fitzsimmons said he was "disappointed and frustrated" to learn of the plan through media reports. Some experts also criticized the government for not being well prepared for the bushfires. Rod Keenan, a professor with the University of Melbourne, said bushfire management comprises three planks: pre...
Australia regularly experiences disasters triggered by natural hazards and New South Wales (NSW) the most populous State is no exception. To date, no publically available spatial and temporal analyses of disaster declarations triggered by hazards (specif
Community bushfire safety: a review of post-Black Saturday research Following the 'Black Saturday' bushfires of 7 February 2009, a number of research reports on community bushfire safety were presented to the Victoria Bushf... J Whittaker,J Handmer - 《Australian Journal of Emergency Management...
Kings Highway, NSW, Australia Driving back to Canberra—our burnt landscape The drive back to Canberra We drove back to Canberra yesterday. It’s 154 kilometres. Most of the first 70 kilometres is heavily treedand almost all of it (both sides of the road) has been burnt. Pooh’s Corner...
Regardless of the cause the basic problem of people management is usually the biggest headache to those involved in the relief effort. To many people the... D Kelly 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Nurses Getting Active: Support and Generosity from Nurses There has been great help and support from the...
Smoke from large fires in 2013 in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales (NSW) was demonstrated to have had detrimental impacts on air quality as far away as Brisbane, Queensland as well as in closer population centres such as Sydney and Wollongong, NSW. (Duc et al. 2018). ...