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 behaviour takes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and danger details each stage of preparing for and responding to the various types of bushfire threat defines safe and unsafe ways to act at each stage of risk clarifies the benefits and hazards of defending, sheltering and evacuation details how to prevent bushfire from destroying your home, even if evacuated explains why one house is untouched but the next is destroyed reveals research into why many people safely defended their homes while others did not facilitates informed choices for one's own circumstances brings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can safely survive this annual summer peril.