Shelter-in-Place

Forest Fire? Bushfire? Run? Maybe...or, you might have considered:

SHELTER IN PLACE? HOW WE SAVED OUR HOME...
Should you defend your home or run?
Video of Battling raging bushfire on our property
Photos of a community battling a wildfire.
Backburns, phone trees, firefighters, the fire front...
A story of fire
Black Saturday

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HELPFUL LINKS:

https://usinsuranceagents.com/home-protection-wildfires

http://www.firewise.org/wildfire-preparedness/be-firewise/home-and-landscape/defensible-space.aspx

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/

On-Site Consultations

Making a property Defendable is a work in progress. If you would like a visit to your property to get some ideas on how to make it more defendable, use the contact form below. I am also available to present this concept and a full recounting of our experience to you, your group, agency, etc. This includes slides, the entire video, and plenty of time for questions and answers, in The USA from April thru October, and in Australia from November thru March.

Use the contact form below for charges, availability, and other questions.

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WARNING!

Remember; Fires can kill. Fires can injure. Fires can destroy your home, no matter what you do. This site is only meant to help you decide for yourself what to do, based on real-life information, as well as to share our experiences.

Contact Me

If you are interested in an on-site home visit, or a presentation to your group, agency, or corporation, send this form. If you have web-based email (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) you can either email me with this form, or use the link at the bottom of the page.

Photos of a community battling a wildfire.

Click any photo to begin a slideshow and see a larger view from The Great Victorian Alps fires of 2003.

Waiting on the Hill

Waiting on the Hill

Comrades before the storm

Comrades before the storm

Here it comes...1,000 kilometer fire front

Here it comes...1,000 kilometer fire front

The front

The front

Backburn...the authorities left after their "shift". Someone else lit it. What would you have done?

Backburn...the authorities left after their "shift". Someone else lit it. What would you have done?

backburn...nice and slow...saved old Herbie's home

backburn...nice and slow...saved old Herbie's home

Here comes

Here comes

the sun

the sun

Stampede!

Stampede!

in hell... Carrie on right, taken from side of house

Jeffe in fire from video

Jeffe in fire from video

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Read the sign

Read the sign

Fell the burnig tree fore it hits the shed

Fell the burnig tree fore it hits the shed

almost over

almost over

happy and exhausted, time to sit, finally

happy and exhausted, time to sit, finally

made it...have a beer

made it...have a beer

Omeo township (note fellow running down road)

Omeo township (note fellow running down road)

Carrie is only color along Mitta river

Carrie is only color along Mitta river

Mitta Mitta river - with newly exposed beaches

Mitta Mitta river - with newly exposed beaches

very hot

very hot

the nieghbor...never was there

the nieghbor...never was there

road marker

one of our 3 bridges... all 3 burnt

unburned before

unburned before

...after

neighbor Neal's wheel barrow

devastation

hail to life!

welcome to Alpine National Park

we have power from solar panels...they don't

Rocky Valley reservoir reflections

Contact: effe Aronson