 |
The first step in empowering communities is to identify and then work with them to address the fire risks they face. As part of a strategy of identifying emergent fire trends, NSW Fire Brigades has entered into a collaborative project with CSIRO to research changes in the residential environment in Class 1a dwellings (houses), looking in particular at changes over the last three decades that may affect life safety outcomes for residents and firefighters exposed to residential fires. |
AFAC
Video:
 |
As part of CFA’s Community Safety Preparedness program 2009-10, CFA expanded the range of programs directed at children to educate them about bushfires. CFA commissioned the development of 10 x 30 second “safety stories” about being prepared for bushfire. |
 |
The award-winning SES Natural Hazards Children’s Awareness and Education Program launched nationally in November 2010. The advertising program featuring 10 x 30 second safety stories ran on free to air and selected pay-tv channels until school resumed in 2011. The program objectives were designed to increase children’s awareness of the potential dangers inherent in floods, storms, cyclones, tsunamis and other natural hazards. |
