- Title:
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Fighting with Fire: How Bushfire Suppression Can Impact on Firefighters’ Health
- Date:
- December 2007
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Brad Aisbett, Matthew Phillips, Michael Sargeant, Barry Gilbert and David Nichols
- Location:
- Australia, Australia
Overview
Article appears in the Australian Family Physician Vol. 36, No. 12, December 2007
Each year bushfire threatens Australia’s rural, forest, and urban-rural areas. Australia’s rural fire fighters work to curtail this threat in hot, smoky conditions, often at risk to their physical health. General practitioners, especially in rural areas, can help preserve the health of fire fighters during the fire season by understanding the stressors they face on the fireground.
