THE COMPLETE BUSHFIRE SAFETY BOOK

This book could save your life

by JOAN WEBSTER

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New softcover book, 352 pages, published 2000.

The complete, comprehensive, unequalled guide to bushfire safety in Australia. Thoroughly researched, with up to date information on every aspect of the subject. The Complete Bushfire Safety Book covers every aspect of protecting your family, your home, yourself and your animals from bushfire - from designing a house and garden which will not burn easily, to deciding whether to evacuate or not and how to make sure your home survives when fire is threatening, through to treating animals which have been injured. This is a comprehensive and unparalleled guide which has the potential to save lives right across Australia.

This book, which is endorsed and recommended by the fire authorities around Australia, has something for everyone, no matter where you are - in the past 15 years two-thirds of all houses destroyed by bushfires have been in the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne. So whether you're in a city suburb, a rural town or in the bush itself, this guide has valuable information for you.

Chapter titles in The Complete Bushfire Safety Book are:

• Background to Bushfires
• Bushfire Cycles
• Bushfire Behaviour
• Insight into Bushfire Tragedy
• How Bushfire Attacks Houses
• Choosing a Safe Site
• A Safe Property Layout
• Design to Keep Bushfire Out of Buildings
• Facilities for Bushfire Defence
• Planting for Bushfire Protection
• How to Prepare for Bushfire Season
• The Decision - Evacuate or Stay?
• Travelling in the Bushfire Season
• What To Do When Bushfire Threatens
• After a Bushfire
• Emergency Checklists

About the author

Joan Katherine Webster is an award-winning freelance journalist, a newspaper columnist, poet, broadcaster, stage and television drama and satirical comedy writer, and an historian. Her first book was a children's novel, Gate Crashed, published in 1976 under the name Joan Seppings. She has also been widely published under the byline Joan Seppings Webster. In 1991 she co-authored, with Sir George Reid, Q.C., M.L.A., his biography In and About Parliament.In 1987 the first edition of this book was accepted as a nomination for the BHP Pursuit of Excellence awards.In 1988, in recognition of her work on bushfires, Joan Webster was appointed consultant to the Victorian Ministry of Education to advise on bushfire safety in schools and community refuges.In 1990 she received the Australian Fire Protection Association's Community Service Award. She is currently working on another book and teaching Effective Writing classes.

The Complete Bushfire Safety Book by Joan Webster