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• Career information about working as a firefighter
• What is fire anyway? Read on for a brief description
• How fire works
• Read more about combustion reactions
• Meet the element oxygen
• More information about fire extinguishers
• More about fire trucks (from the USA )
• Find out about the equipment that firefighters use
• Bushfire safety information from NSW and Western Australia
• Read about how bushfires affect the (Victorian) environment
• A description of the process of fire investigation
• Fire science research from CSIRO
• More about arson dogs

• Egg in a bottle

• Fire safety brochures from the Fire Protection Association Australia
• Some interesting facts, figures and constants relating to fires
• Online experiments relating to calorimetry
• Animation showing a combustion reaction and its products
• The history of fire fighting equipment
• See a demonstration of different fire extinguishers used on burning fat
• Diagram of a carbon dioxide extinguisher and a dry powder extinguisher
• What do fire trucks look like around the world?
• What is bushfire weather?
• Kids' information about preventing arson from the UK
• Flammability of different fabrics (PDF)
• A flammability test to do in the classroom
• Find out how Australian Aborigines traditionally use fire

Try these science activities from CSIRO's Science by Email:

• Investigate how a fire extinguisher works
• Learn how to change the colour of fire
• Explore convection currents with a tea-bag rocket
• Suck up water with fire

• Dr Rob
• Wendie Fox - community education coordinator
• Donavan Marney - research scientist
• Stuart McKerral - firefighter
• Brad Paroz - fire safety engineer