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Felipe Dimer de Oliveira

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Risk Scientist, Macquarie University

Fires in Esperance killed four people last week. AAP Image/Michael Sainty

November 22, 2015

More people are dying in Western Australian bushfires – but flames are still not the biggest killers

Katharine Haynes, Macquarie University; Felipe Dimer de Oliveira, Macquarie University, and Lucinda Coates, Macquarie University

Four people have died in catastrophic fires in Western Australia. Long-term data show more females and people leaving their homes late are dying in fires.

The town of Dunalley in south-eastern Tasmania was ravaged by bushfires. AAP

January 10, 2013

A history of vulnerability: putting Tasmania’s bushfires in perspective

Felipe Dimer de Oliveira, Macquarie University; John McAneney, Macquarie University, and Keping Chen, Macquarie University

Once again, bushfires are laying waste to Australian homes and communities, this time in Tasmania, with reports of 65 or more properties destroyed in Dunalley alone. Fire emergency services in other states…

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