Survival in bushfire season

How to be fire-ready this summer

Summer seems to come earlier every year. With the fire-ravaged communities of Victoria still to re-build the fire season has already arrived for Queenslanders. Across Australia it is time to have your fire plan ready. Would you stay and fight or would you abandon your home? The Country Fire Authority warns your survival may depend on you evacuating.

On Ash Wednesday in 1983, Sandra Firth-Williamson and her son defended their Labertouche home from ember attack. However, almost 26 years later, after watching the smoke trail grow on Bunyip Ridge Track only four kilometres from that same home, she was no longer prepared to stay. It was Saturday, February…