Claudia+McArthur

 By Claudia McArthur Description of a bushfire:  Bushfires are very common in Australia. They are usually red, orange and even blue sometimes. Bushfires spread very, very fast and they can kill people in a few seconds. They damage crops, farms and mostly wooden houses. When you are near a bushfire the heat can get up to forty degress. Bushfires can go from plant to plant. The causes of bushfires:  Usually bushfires are caused by people like when men and women throw out their cigarette butts out the car window. Also forgetting to put out campfires is another reason. Some people even mean to start fires. The natural reasons of how a bushfires are started are global warming and lightning.



The effect of the bushfires on people’s lives, communities and the environment: Bushfires can effect on people’s lives by destroying homes, loved ones and their pets. On the other side it destroys the environment and when the environment gets damaged more animals can die or become extinct. It is life threatening for a bushfire is near you.

How the Disaster is forecasted : When there is a bushfire is coming it is usually very hot, dry weather and a drought. Also they manly come in spring and summer. Never autumn or winter. The preventive measures of stopping bushfires: To prevent bushfires near your house always rake up, make sure you have clean gutters, live where there is hardly any trees, and have a working hose. If there is a bushfire call 000or evacuate the house or place. Also you can live in a colder place like Antartica. Interesting facts:  · <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Victorian bushfire was very big, it destroyed over seventy homes! <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bushfires are fatal get out of the house or call 000 if you see one.

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