This is a series of CBS Island World. I'm John Batcheter with Daniel Clove, whose book

A Future in Flames is about wildfires in the U.S, Bush fires in Australia.

Same thing, it's a phenomenon, although there are different vegetation,

different hemispheres, different wind conditions.

And yet, what do you do if you live in a fire zone, which apparently, as far as I can tell,

all of Australia is eventually in a fire zone, there's a difference between fire risk parts of Australia

and fire likely parts of Australia.

Vast parts of the center of the country.

I've never been there, Danielle, so help me if I get this wrong.

The west and the north, northern territory and the center are without many people and

without many settlements. The settlements are along the coast, south coast

and the southeast coast and the East Coast.

And those areas are fire risk.

So we come to what kind of fires?

Daniel has a whole section devoted to the big ones. They're not every year.

We've mentioned 1939, but they come often enough so that you must think about them

whenever you change your address.

Daniel, you started early in life before the babies,

you lived in urban settings, I'm going to guess Adelaide, maybe you lived in urban settings I'm going to guess Adelaide maybe you live in

Sydney but you moved to Victoria the southern part of the continent and you moved into the outskirts of a city where one of the

first people who called upon you most kindly was the captain of the fire brigade.

You were early in your marriage were you ready for that that he was going to

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