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Incident Operations / Re: 4th Alarm Grass - Belair (Urban rural interface)
« on: January 19, 2008, 02:35:10 PM »media needs to tell these areas firmly and matter of fact that they will burn like Canberra.
Or California.
Blue you are absolutely right. It's been the subject of many an emergency management paper & thesis. We had a steady stream of people coming up to us during a short period we were standing by in one street (Burnell Drv) asking what they should do.
Q: "Have you prepared your house & property to defend it ?"
A: "Huh?"
No idea even of The CFS Message existence, let alone its content.
As politically incorrect a thought as it is, the only way to make bush-fires relevant to most people is frequent fires close to home. And lose a house or two in each UI suburb to bushfire every 7 years or so.
But Blue, your post has challenged me to re-think my attitude to these people.
I shall have to work on patience & rein-in the sarcasm. Or maybe not...