Community safety and engagement

Risk factors in residential fire fatalities for the mentally ill and socially at risk

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Erin Doolan, PhD candidate at Victoria University, researched the risk factors in residential fire fatalities for the mentally ill and socially at risk. She identified social isolation as one of the specific risk factors that may increase the risk of death in a residential fire.

Emotional bushfire preparedness in your pocket

This article appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Fire Australia magazine.

A team of Bushfire CRC researchers is helping residents of bushfire-prone areas prepare for a bushfire by modifying their thoughts using an iPhone application. By Nathan Maddock, Fire Australia magazine Joint Editor.

Researchers have developed an iPhone application to help people exposed to the risk of a bushfire engage more actively in bushfire preparedness.

Community bushfire safety issues: interviews with residents

This Fire Note, Community bushfire safety issues: findings from interviews with residents affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires, is the final report summary from the Decision making under stress: understanding community members survival-related decision making in bushfire (analysis of 2009 Victorian bushfires) project. The project is part of the Bushfire CRC Communicating Risk program.

Community bushfire safety issues: findings from interviews with residents affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires

Fire Note 98: Immediately following the 7 February 2009 Victorian bushfires the Bushfire CRC organised a multi-agency Task Force to investigate and report on three aspects of the fire: fire behaviour; building survivability and infrastructure; and human behaviour and community safety. This investigation involved interviews with more than 500 survivors. This Fire Note reports analysis relating to human behaviour and community safety from 496 of these interview transcripts.

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