Facing a disaster

ABC Emergency has added to its excellent online resources with a dramatised real life scenario of a family caught up in a nasty bushfire.

Facing a disaster: the brain makes it harder than you expect

The video emphasises the need for a well-considered and well-practiced survival plan, in the face of a threat that requires clear thinking under extreme and unanticipated events.

This bushfire scenario video will soon be joined by one on floods.

Some useful other ABC sites from the Catalyst archive include:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/earthonfire/

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2922902.htm?listaction=unsubscribe (how homes burn)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/dontpanicfire/default.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/dontpaniccyclone/default.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4099073.htm (mega tsunamis)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2727549.htm (decisions under fire)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1995174.htm (tsunami bouy)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s382613.htm (super cyclones)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s392312.htm (Perth-quake)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s794270.htm (Canberra fire-storm)