Fire and 'Living in the Bush'

Living in sub-urban, fire-prone areas with insufficient infrastructure to be evacuated from in case of fires: Sprawl. >>The Age What is Alert systems? VoIP?

Updates:
"A team whose job was to issue public warnings on a fire that killed 121 people had no access to the CFA website on Black Saturday" >> Herald Sun 290509

"Families of Country Fire Authority firefighters were tipped off hours in advance about an approaching wildfire on Black Saturday">> The Australian 280509

"The smoke reached an abnormal altitude of 20 km" The smoke plumes (100209) polluted the stratosphere.>> NASA, CALIPSO 030509

And then there is the normal telephone: " The commission has been told that while more than 10,000 calls were made to the Bushfire Information Line, 82 per cent of calls went unanswered. " abc 020609