Using Timber in Bushfire Prone Areas 6 USing Timber in Bushfire Prone Areas
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Running head: USING TIMBER IN BUSHFIRE PRONE AREASUsing Timber in Bushfire Prone AreasName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
1USING TIMBER IN BUSHFIRE PRONE AREASIntroduction For the residents of Australia, bushy fire is a common thing and bushfires are veryfrequent in Australia due to hot and dry climate in the months of summer. Every year suchbushfires harms the government property and harms the common people of the area in manyways and along with it such fires increase the carbon content in the air and pollute theenvironment heavily (Smith 2013). It is seen that major fire storms affects heavily and becomesthe reason behind many losses of lives and damage of domestic and government property year.Sometimes the losses are so destructive that people give names the day when such things happenlike a black Tuesday or Ash Thursday. According to statistics in the year of 2009, a bushfire tooklives of 172 individuals and damaged property over 3 million dollars (Cavallo and Ireland 2014).Due to massive bushfires in various areas of Australia, each year massive damages are done tothe public and government property, as well as to the wild animals and to the lives of manyindividuals. Due to these kinds of devastating bushfires many a time’s crops get burnt and thatincreases the prices of the grains in the market (Whittaker, Handmer and Mercer 2012). Thepurpose of this report is to highlight that whether the usage of timbers are good or bad nearbushfire prone areas and how strategically people can use timber in buildings near bushfire proneareas of Australia. Categories of bushfireIn Australia, the term bushfire originated from ‘the bush’ meaning relatively sparselyinhabited areas of the land. In Australia people call it bushfire when the fire is uncontrolled andnonstructural that burns the grassy or forest areas of the land and in Australia two main types ofbushfires are seen.
2USING TIMBER IN BUSHFIRE PRONE AREASMountain fireThe fires in the hilly zones of Australia are generally known as mountainous fire and thisoccurs especially in the dense forest areas of the nation (Bradstock, Williams and Gill 2012).Mountainous fires are seen in places where the land is less accessible for the individuals and notgood for agricultural purposes. In most cases, the steep terrain allows the fire to spread in anuncontrolled way and makes it very hard to stop using other forces by forest department (Smith2013). Flat fireThe bushfires that take place in flat grassy lands are generally known as flat fire. Thesetypes of fires can move freely triggered by uncontrolled wind. In most cases these fires do notpose many threats as these types of fires are easily controllable and cause lesser harms to life andproperty (King et al. 2013).Bushfire prone zonesIn Australia there are some states where the chances of bushfires are generally very highand in most cases uncontrollable bushfires are seen in those cases. States like Victoria, NewSouth Wales, Queensland and South Australia are known as bushfire prone zones.
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