How can we substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services? The Hon Craig Crawford, Queensland Minister for Fire and Emergency Services, thinks research can provide the answer. "What we need is research. Research gives us the direction we need to go,” he said.

New research drawing on 14 years of data has been released by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and MFB, with the study providing the valuable data the fire industry needs to develop a national residential fire strategy to reduce preventable residential fire fatalities towards zero.