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Trees alight in an intense bushfire.

Up close to an intense bushfire.

Protecting your home from bushfire

In this interview, Mr Justin Leonard discusses ways you can prepare your home against bushfires. (7:44)

  • 27 September 2006 | Updated 25 November 2011

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Bushfires are a common threat to many parts of the world, including Australia.

The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure?

Mr Justin Leonard explains in this interview how home-owners can better prepare their homes for the bushfire season.

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Ms Anne Leitch

Communication specialist

Climate Adaptation Flagship

Phone: 61 7 3833 5652

Email: Anne.Leitch@csiro.au

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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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