Hot Stuff

SJC academics John Harrison and Bruce Redman are collaborating with burns surgeon Michael Muller and a team from the School of Medicine’s Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre to research and evaluate an adult burns prevention campaign.

“People throw petrol on a fire to get it going, and they get burned. Part of our research is to film the impact of various quantities of fuel on fire,” Dr Harrison said. “Bruce Redman has been working with the Queensland Fire & Rescue Academy at Whyte Island to film fires accelerated by petrol.

“The fire service people have been fantastic,” Bruce Redman. “They are doing all the hot stuff. We now know how little fuel it takes to get a big bang. And big bangs burn people.”

We have greatly valued the help given by QFRS Inspector Dave Such along with fire officers Rod Knight and Tony Brown, at the Academy’s Live Fire Campus, which is an internationally recognised site for research and training on fire behaviour, Dr Harrison said.

The campaign, which will be trialed in regional Queensland media next month, also included interviews with doctors, burns victims and their families. The project is funded by a competitive research grant from Queensland Health.

Below is one of the posters produced from the campaign. 
 

 

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