Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions. Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips: demystifies bushfire behaviourtakes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and dangerdetails each stage of preparing for and responding to the various types of bushfire threatdefines safe and unsafe ways to act at each stage of riskclarifies the benefits and hazards of defending, sheltering and evacuationdetails how to prevent bushfire from destroying your home, even if evacuatedexplains why one house is untouched but the next is destroyedreveals research into why many people safely defended their homes while others did notfacilitates informed choices for one's own circumstancesbrings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can safely survive this annual summer peril.