It’s another summer again and once again we have almost daily TV accounts of an urban blaze somewhere around Perth in some pocket of urban bush or local bush …
UncategorisedThe Usual Urban Panics
Cyclone Disaster Remembered
Forty years ago in April 1978, Cyclone Alby brought one of Western Australia’s worst storm and bushfire crises to the South-west and Great Southern regions. Both were severely hit. …
Autumn Smoke
The skies in South Western WA this autumn have carried large volumes of smoke from prescribed burning in forests along the Darling Range. While there have been some complaints from …
The Sawyers Bushfire – Disaster Averted
The January 2018 Sawyers Valley bushfire occurred under moderate temperature but windy conditions. Believed to have been started by an arsonist, the fire started at about 8 AM alongside Gorrie …
Bushfire Threat To Water Purity
The devastation caused by large, intense bushfires on communities, forests and farms is well-known. It is a focus for the media every time there is a fire. What is less …
The Blackboy Story
Even down south…. . ↑
A Rural Fire Service for WA
Why We Need a Rural Fire Service Why is the Government running scared of providing us the type of Fire Service that those living outside the Perth area and …
Emergency Services Levy
THE EMERGENCY SERVICES LEVY Each year all landholders in WA pay an Emergency Services Levy (ESL), which is intended to be a fair way of raising the funds …
Bushfire Management Must Be Fixed
A proposal by the Bush Fire Front Inc., March 2016 Introduction The 2016 Waroona/Yarloop fire is the latest in a growing number of serious bushfires in the South west of …
Keelty
The Keelty Inquiry into Bushfires in WA. A submission from The Bushfire Front Inc April 2011 Summary Bushfire management can be looked at in two ways: (i) the efficiency with …