While there is a severe fire hazard in many places in Western Australia, there are several standout places where the hazards are very high, and the potential for loss …
Fighting BushfiresUnsafe Places
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 …
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 …
The need for a landscape approach
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Fuel management is the critical factor
The Importance of Reducing Fuel Loadings Much of the vegetated areas between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin are carrying long unburnt and very heavy fuels which in the event of …
Fighting fire with fire
The role of water bombers
Water bombing and magic bullets by Roger Underwood Back in the summer of 1960/61, when I was training to become a forestry officer, I was unlucky enough to be caught …
The alternative approaches
Bushfire management in Australian forests – confronting a changing environment by Roger Underwood There is an old saying that one of the greatest of human failings is the inability to …
Smoke
The Smoke Issue The smoke that arises from bushfires, whether it comes from prescribed burns or from wildfires, is a controversial subject in Western Australia. Every time the metropolitan area …