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BLACK SUMMER – HOW THE NSW COMMUNITY RESPONDED TO THE 2019-20 BUSHFIRE SEASON

10 Jun 2021

The NSW RFS Statement of Work identified the following themes and questions for investigation: Risk communication • Were people aware of the risk leading in to the bushfire season? • How did people obtain, understand and respond to information and warnings? • Were information and warnings useful to people given their personal circumstances? • How can information and warnings be enhanced? • How did. [...] The NSW RFS Statement of Work identified the following themes and questions for investigation: Risk communication • Were people aware of the risk leading into the bushfire season? • How did people obtain, understand and respond to information and warnings? • Were information and warnings useful to people given their personal circumstances? • How can information and warnings be enhanced? • How did. [...] We knew it was going to be a bad fire season just the amount of rain that we didn’t have and the fuel load, and how dry the fuel load was – it wasn’t just dry on the top, it was just dry all the way through the dirt and there was no moisture in the dirt at all so yeah, there was just no moisture in the ground and it was just too hot. [...] They said it was going to be a dreadful fire season because of the drought and so they had come and talked to us and given us handouts of the sorts of things we should think about in terms of creating our fire plan and not to do it at the last minute. [...] I looked at it at about 7:30 in the morning, or 8:00 and I saw that the fire spread zone for down south in Mogo and Moruya, Cobargo, that the fire had already reached where the fire prediction spread ember attack was going to be by the end of the day.

Authors

Friedo Ligthart

Pages
131
Published in
Australia

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