Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions.

Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips:

• demystifies bushfire behaviour


• takes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and danger


• details each stage of preparing for and responding to the various types of bushfire threat


• defines safe and unsafe ways to act at each stage of risk


• clarifies the benefits and hazards of defending, sheltering and evacuation


• details how to prevent bushfire from destroying your home, even if evacuated


• explains why one house is untouched but the next is destroyed


• reveals research into why many people safely defended their homes while others did not


• facilitates informed choices for one's own circumstances


• brings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can safely survive this annual summer peril.