ESSENTIAL BUSHFIRE SAFETY TIPS

This book could save your life

by JOAN WEBSTER

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New softcover book, 110 pages, published 2008.

Bushfire authorities urge people to be ready for summer with a safety plan. Essential Bushfire Safety Tips has everything you need to know to makeyour bushfire plan with confidence, providing accurate information in anaccessible, clear way.

In this condensed version of Joan Webster's acclaimed The Complete Bushfire Safety Book, over 2000 authenticated tips are listed, covering every known bushfire danger and safety factor.

This handy book demystifies bushfire behaviour; details the protective action needed at each stage of danger; lists killer and survival factors; discusses evacuation dangers and advantages, how to make a safe stay or go decision and sets out safe travel for holidaymakers. It explains how bushfire attacks houses, describes weather factors and safe burning-off procedures and lists home bushfire equipment.

Buishfire does not only endanger rural people. More than half of all bushfire tragedies happen in the grassy, leafy, outer city suburbs. Everyone who lives or works in or near the countryside or urban fringe needs this book. The knowlege it offers can help greatly to reduce dangers to homes and lives, and take the fear out of Australian summers.

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.

Essential Bushfire Safety Tips by Joan Webster