Essential Bushfire Safety Guide

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.

Joan Webster's groundbreaking first book on bushfire safety, The Complete Australian Bushfire Book (1986) was shortlisted for the BHP Pursuit of Excellence Award 1987. This, and its subsequent The Complete Bushfire Safety Book and ready reference Essential Bushfire Safety Tips, have been acclaimed by Bushfire authorities throughout Australia and overseas; readers say they have helped save their lives and homes. Her 25 years as news reporter/photographer and journalist, gained for her a reputation for 'getting things done'. This characteristic surfaced very young - aged only six - leading to the Australian Fire Protection Association's Community Service Award, 1990, and culminating in 2010 with the Order of Australia Medal for her 40 years plus work on bushfire safety.