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Alpine study opens its research to community

An alpine paddock in the New South Wales Snowy Plains was the venue for the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre High Fire project open day on 20 March.

Attracting the younger firefighter

A unique survey following firefighting volunteers six months after recruitment has begun to provide the basis of better volunteer recruitment strategies.

Mallee bushfires - Ngarkat burns attract widespread research

The mallee and heath landscape of Ngarkat Conservation Park in south-eastern South Australia has been deliberately set alight in one of the largest and most comprehensive fire research exercises undertaken in Australia.

Managing the Bushfire Risk

A perennial challenge in the management of fire is to strike a balance between the relative costs of bushfire mitigation, and the related losses incurred by the community.

In the media...

Calls for a national fire front

The Age

Wed, 26/12/2012

Phone app to aid in fire risk warning

Herald Sun

Wed, 26/12/2012

Greens call for new bushfire body

Courier Mail

Wed, 26/12/2012

Grasslands fire alert

Weekly Times

Wed, 19/12/2012

Bushfire safety messages failing: research

Perth Now

Tue, 18/12/2012

Grassfire threat a summer concern

ABC Bush Telegraph

Tue, 18/12/2012

Grass bushfires and hot summer predicted

The World Today

Tue, 18/12/2012

Residents warned to be bushfire ready

ABC News

Mon, 17/12/2012

SMS warnings may backfire

Stock and Land

Mon, 17/12/2012

Fears texts will increase complacency

The Age

Mon, 17/12/2012

Australia not prepared for bushfire risk

ABC Environment

Mon, 17/12/2012

Fears texts will increase complacency

Wimmera Mail-Times

Mon, 17/12/2012

Greater knowledge to battle bushfires

Canberra Times

Fri, 14/12/2012

Fire warnings go unheeded as season begins

News.com.au

Fri, 14/12/2012

Bushfire warnings not working: experts

Weekly Times

Fri, 14/12/2012

An incredible journey

Posted: 10 years 5 months ago

After 11 years, we are about to enter the last month of your Bushfire CRC. It has been an incredible journey since 2003.

For me, what has stood out the most, notwithstanding the ground breaking research, is the culture change the industry has undertaken throughout this period. At the heart of this has been the close partnership between the Bushfire CRC and AFAC. The...

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Gary Morgan

CEO

Bushfire CRC

Tools available into the future

Posted: 10 years 5 months ago

There is only a month left of the Bushfire CRC, but there is plenty of activity going on. The Research to Drive Change series has been launched, with two successful online forums held. Keep your eyes peeled to the...

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Nathan Maddock

Communications Officer

Bushfire CRC

Recent FireNotes

Model Pinpoints Factors Driving Extreme Bushfire Behaviour

Fire Note 137: In the 2003 Canberra bushfires, a number of unusual fires were observed in which bushfire spread sideways in a diagonal or crosswise direction to...

Assessing Smoke Exposure from Bushfires and Prescribed Burns

Fire Note 136: This Fire Note reports in more detail on the smoke dispersion modelling work undertaken as part of the Fire Impact and Risk Evaluation...

New Modelling Methods to Estimate Smoke Exposure

Fire Note 135: This Fire Note details research that estimates toxic emissions commonly encountered by firefighters extinguishing fires in semi-rural communities...

Anxiety and Worry Linked with Lower Bushfire Preparedness: Study

Fire Note 134: This Fire Note outlines research undertaken within the bushfire-prone communities of Roleystone and Kelmscott in the Perth Hills, about 45 minutes...

National study profiles bushfire preparedness

Fire Note 133: The national research featured in this Fire Note investigated the community and householder characteristics that contribute to bushfire preparedness in...

Prepared for action: new tools and insights

Fire Note 132: Offers a new way of thinking about bushfire preparedness and its measurement. The study defines preparedness in terms of three householder goals: stay and defend...

Study captures insights on bushfire risk and response

Fire Note 131: In October 2013, bushfires swept across parts of New South Wales, leaving a trail of destruction and loss. The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) commissioned the...

Fire In the landscape, assessing the impact

Fire Note 130: Features the findings of four research projects on the impact of fire on water quantity and quality, as well as changing carbon stores (above and below the ground...

LATEST NEWS

French connections

Wed, 07/11/2012

Bilateral bushfire research and development has been strengthened with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Bushfire CRC and Pôle Risques, a French risk management organisation.

Summit on fire safety

Wed, 07/11/2012

Fire safety was the main point of discussion at the 12th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit held in Sydney at the end of October. Sponsored by the Bushfire CRC, the summit attracted more than 100 delegates from around Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe.

Firebrand behaviour and the probability of fuel bed ignition

Mon, 22/10/2012

Fire Note 99 documents the first stage of the Firebrand potential and spot fire initiation project. The results of this project will enable fire managers to better understand the process of spotting, assist in identifying when spotting will be a hazard and provide a basis for predicting its occurrence and maximum distance.

Fire Australia Spring edition is out

Thu, 18/10/2012

The Spring 2012 edition of Fire Australia is out, featuring stories on the Bushfire CRC seasonal bushfire outlook, a look at the extreme fire behaviour research project and an extract by Jerry Williams from the annual Bushfire CRC and AFAC conference on the growing threat of fire.

Growing Wildfire Threats

Wed, 17/10/2012

Context is everything in today’s wildland fire debate. This paper focuses much attention on the dry forest types in the Western United States—which means Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and associated species. These forests are where many of our worst wildfires occur. I want to use these short-interval fire-adapted ecosystems to make some points about the relationship between their dynamics, our management of them, and the wildfire outcomes that we should expect.

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