Firefighters found themselves coming face to face with a 4-metre long pet crocodile while attending a house fire last Thursday (April 29th). The fire occurred at 10.00 am in a suburb of Darwin in northern Australia and destroyed the top…
The preparedness and evacuation behaviour of Australian pet owners
Much of what is known about pet owner behaviour in emergencies in an Australian context is informed by limited or anecdotal evidence, or media reporting of the actions, or inactions, of individuals. In the international disaster literature pet ownership is…