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Table 1 Fire impact 1

From: Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery - a longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness

Fire impact

Features

High

Fatalities and many houses lost

Medium

Upper end of range may include small number of fatalities through to communities with no fatalities but significant amount of property damage

Low

No fatalities, minimal or no property loss

  1. 1This is a modified version of the classification system developed for the CFA post-fire analysis of the efficacy of the Community Fireguard Program (Gibbs et al., CFA Post-fire Qualitative Research: Preliminary Report. The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth, 2009 p. 6, http://cfa.vic.gov.au/fm_files/attachments/Publications/Post_Fire_Qualitative_Research_Preliminary_Report.pdf).
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BMC Public Health

ISSN: 1471-2458

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