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S8 Ep266: HOME PREPAREDNESS AND SURVIVAL TACTICS DURING WILDFIRES Colleague Danielle Clode. Clode details essential preparedness strategies for those living in fire-prone areas, emphasizing that home design features like sealed underfloor spaces are critical to pre

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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HOME PREPAREDNESS AND SURVIVAL TACTICS DURING WILDFIRES Colleague Danielle Clode. Clodedetails essential preparedness strategies for those living in fire-prone areas, emphasizing that home design features like sealed underfloor spaces are critical to prevent ignition from embers. She clarifies that ember attacks, described as "red rain," are often a greater threat to houses than direct flames and stresses the importance of making early "stay or go" decisions during high-risk weather. The conversation also covers survival tactics for being trapped in a car, where Clodeadvises parking in a cleared area, keeping the engine running, and using a woolen blanket as a shield against deadly radiant heat. NUMBER 3

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.8

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0:28.7

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.

0:36.6

This is CBSI in the world.

0:41.4

I'm John Batchel with Daniel Kload, whose book A Future in Flames is about wildfires in the U.S. Bush fires in Australia. Same thing. It's a phenomenon,

0:47.6

although there are different vegetation, different hemispheres, different wind conditions,

0:53.2

and yet what do you do if you live in a fire

0:56.6

zone, which apparently, as far as I can tell, all of Australia is eventually in a fire zone,

1:01.5

there's a difference between fire risk parts of Australia and fire likely parts of Australia.

1:07.5

Vast parts of the center of the country.

1:09.7

I've never been there, Danielle, so help me if I

1:11.6

get this wrong. The west and the north, northern territory and the center are without many people

1:18.1

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

1:25.8

and the east coast.

1:30.6

And those areas are fire risk.

1:33.8

So we come to what kind of fires?

1:36.9

Daniel has a whole section devoted to the big ones.

1:38.2

They're not every year.

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