Australia Unprepared for Worsening Extreme Weather - Facts You Need To Know

› The number of days of Very High to Catastrophic bushfire danger each year are increasing across much of Australia, and are projected to get even worse. [...] The increasing overlap of fire seasons between states and territories and with the USA and Canada will limit our ability to help each other during major emergencies. [...] We call on all State and Territory Governments to: › Provide increased resources to enable forestry, national parks, urban and rural fire services to increase environmentally sensitive fuel reduction and fire mitigation programs. [...] › Cease cutting the budgets and resources of forestry, national parks, urban and rural fire services, both directly and through instruments such as “efficiency dividends”, so that the services can increase operational capacity to deal with our “new normal” of catastrophic weather risks. [...] Officer, Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade WA Dept of Fire & Emergency Services Climate Councillor Tony Blanks AFSM Craig Hynes AFSM Frank Pagano AFSM, ESM Former Fire Unit Manager, Tasmania National Former Chief Operations Officer, Former Executive Director, Emergency Parks, and former Fire Manager, Forestry WA Fire and Emergency Services Authority Management Queensland, and former Tasmania Dep.