17 Dec 2019

Australia needs to prepare for future of extreme fires - expert

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 17 December 2019

An Australian expert on fires says his country needs to urgently prepare for a future of prolonged bushfires and air pollution.

Australia is in the grip of a devastating fire season, six people have been killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and over a million hectares razed.

David Bowman is the director of the Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania's school of natural sciences and says Australia should retro fit houses to make them heat and smoke proof among many other measures.

A fire rages in Bobin, 350km north of Sydney on November 9, 2019, as firefighters try to contain dozens of out-of-control blazes that are raging in the state of New South Wales.

Photo: AFP