Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers — With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety, at least for those who can afford …::With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety - at least for those who can afford them

  • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    These are basically small concrete boxes sunk into the ground. They’re only meant to stick out a bushfire for a few hours.

    You could probably just keep a few bottles of oxygen or a carbon dioxide scrubber stashed in there, just in case. If you can spend $10,000 on one of these bunkers, spending a few hundred more isn’t going to make a difference.

    Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.