Some Facts About Bushfires
  • The majority of people who lose their lives in bushfire do so directly because or poorly timed and poorly planned last-minute evacuation.
  • The environment a bushfire creates is deadly to the extreme: radiant heat can cook you alive in seconds, smoke can suffocate you in minutes and embers can burn any exposed skin area critically.
  • Too few Australian families have an adequate evacuation plan and evacuation kits for the whole family.
  • Too few Australians even know what to do in bushfire emergency.