Fighting Fire

When a bushfire threatens, do you attempt to fight the fire, or flee to safety? If the SES (or whichever group of appointed experts) decide that everyone should "flee" -- should that decision be enforced? Regulations have been suggested, to give Police the authority to force home-owners to flee. Some home-owners demand the right to remain and fight.

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What are the problems?

• Home-owners may, in fact, be able to save their homes by staying to fight the fire.
  
• Home-owners who stay may die in the bushfire.
  
• Firefighters want to protect people from being burnt. Their lawyers demand that they do all that they can, to protect people from being burnt.
  
• If you flee too late, you may be at more risk than if you stayed near your home.
  
• It takes time and effort to remove a home-owner who does not want to move. This time could be better spent helping people who want to be helped.

Solution: allow freedom of choice

If a home-owner really believes that they want to stay and fight to protect their own home -- let them. Allow them that freedom to choose. At the same time, we need to allow the emergency services to get on with saving people who do want to be saved.

Provide a sign saying, "All people on this property have chosen to stay on this property and fight bushfires." (Better make it a fireproof sign.) The sign must be displayed prominently at the entrance to the property. People on that property will not be forced to move.

Emergency services will still warn them, that the recommendation is, to flee. The home-owners may, on being given the warning, choose to flee. After that warning, end of story: emergency services move on to protect those who want to be protected.

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