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The 2013 Linksview fire destroyed 195 houses in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2013. In this study, we examined the role of construction codes on the impact of houses exposed to the fire, by extracting details of construction year and standard for 466 houses from the archives of the Blue Mountains City Council. Houses built to standards imposed from 2000 fared better than previous standards, though post-2000 houses assessed at Flame Zone level were vulnerable. Construction year was also a good predictor of impact with pre-1990 houses suffering more than twice the level of impact as post-2000 hou...

Many Victorian bushfire survivors still waiting to rebuild after devastation of Black Summer SunSunday 20 Milusa Giles feels like she is one of the lucky ones. ( Share Print text only Cancel A year after bushfires destroyed 1.5 million hectares in Victoria, many people who lost their homes and belongings are enduring another summer in makeshift accommodation. The fires in Gippsland and the state's north-east destroyed 458 homes, and in the aftermath about 30 families moved into short-term modular housing. Some are in the process of building new homes, but the majority are still months away fr...