Fire Australia - pass it on

As the Bushfire CRC prepares to attend the Fire Protection Association of Australia conference in Adelaide later this month, another edition of our joint Fire Australia magazine is set to hit the streets.

The quarterly magazine is a joint publication of the Bushfire CRC, the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC), Fire Protection Association Australia and the Institution of Fire Engineers Australia. It is posted to more than 5000 of our members and hopefully shared around within organisations.

The editorial content of Fire Australia a great way to get a quick understanding of some of the bigger issues in our industry.

The Spring 2011 edition features a wrap up of our annual conference and the Fire Weather workshop that followed straight after. It also takes an in-depth look at the design lessons learnt from recent fires in tall buildings.

Previously, the cover story of Fire Australia’s Winter 2011 edition looked at the ever-contentious issue of prescribed burning. The article principally describes a just-published book on the subject, Burning Issues, by Bushfire CRC Board member Professor Mark Adams of the University of Sydney and Dr Peter Attiwill of the University of Melbourne 

Other Bushfire CRC articles in this Fire Australia include one on our research into improving firefighter health and safety, led by Dr Brad Aisbett and his team at Deakin University, and one by Dr Michael Eburn and Professor Stephen Dovers of Australian National University on the need for better understanding of the legal risks arising from bushfires.