Australian fire services encourage householders to develop a written bushfire action plan that includes pets and animals. The advice given to horse guardians is preemptive relocation at least the day before a forecast catastrophic fire day. The aim of this research was to determine compliance and ...
This creates an element of criminality in relation to bushfires which includes the establishment of bushfire arson as a serious criminal offence. The author presents a motive-based typology of deliberately lit bushfires and argues that a greater understanding of the reasons why people light bushfire...
Kids can get worried duringbushfires, and fire emergencies have been linked with a reduction in children'smental health. Stories such as theBirdie's Tree bookscan help children understand these events do pass and people help one another in times of difficulty. Learning more about air pollution ...
So far, she’s raised $555,000 and has had 9,5000 people register for the virtual run. “It’s been a scrappy operation from its infancy,” she says. “But eventually, I came to this 'ah ha moment', where I realized there must be something I could do to mobilize the running ...
REConstruct: getting power generation facilities to impacted communities Australia’s Black Summer Bushfires in 2019-2020 took a terrible toll in terms of lives and livelihoods. 33 people were killed. The fires burned more than 3,000 houses and 17 million hectares of land, and also caused the ...
Many of us will be exposed to a disaster in our lifetime. In the past two years alone, Australians have lived through bushfires, floods, cyclones, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Devastating bushfires have beenspreading across Australiafor months, and they show no signs of slowing down. Millions of acres have burned, destroying about 2,000 homes and killing at least 25 people. It is estimated that more thanhalf a billion wild animalshave perished in the flames — a ...
"We need people to listen, respond, and get out." SEE ALSO: Australia just had its hottest day ever... two days in a row Australia’s bushfires have been fuelled by lack of rain, strong winds, and record-breaking heat, turning this fire season into Australia’s worst on record. ...
Researchers have started an attribution study to determine how much global warming is to blame for the blazes that have ravaged the continent.
“Written policy can be quite onerous, you will do this, and that. You might not take everything in, that’s why the average guy offshore might not have much contact with it. But, when you go offshore you get your Part B [offshore induction, upon first arrival to the oilfields], ...