This is John Batchelor. In Turc County, California, fire hardly contained, sweeping aside buildings

and feeding on the winds up to 100 miles per hour, Jeff Bliss tells me. This is a book by Daniel

Claude from Australia. She's an expert on bushfires.

That's what wildfires are called in Australia, reflecting on what is to be done.

Bushfires, wildfires, the projection is they will increase as the temperature increases

in global climate change.

The fire in Ventura is a taste of it, but it's fire season, bush fire season coming in Australia.

That's a difficult question, isn't it?

I mean, I love living in bushland areas.

I love the native vegetation, and so I do want to live in a country area.

But it does come with risks.

Those risks are rare.

Even with the increased fire risk, it's still a rare event.

So I think we just need to learn how to live safely if we're going to live in those areas.

And the real risk comes from, not so much from rural communities that have lived

with these risks for a long time. It's often more of a problem in urban interface areas.

So people moving into the foothills, you know, bushy areas surrounding cities on the outskirts

of cities. So we have high population, low preparedness for fires, low experience of fires.

Often people who don't live in the area, they work in town, but live, you know, they live

in the area, but they work in the city. So those things all increase the risk. And so we really

need to look at ways of helping people prepare better. I think it's just a matter of recognizing that you live in a fire zone and you have to be prepared.

More of this later.

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