Field research conducted during the Black Saturday fires showed bushfire fighters did not get above 38.5°C core temperature.
Notes on verification
Directly attributed to Dr. Brad Aisbett in an ABC News interview and consistent with peer-reviewed field studies by his research group on wildfire firefighter physiology during and after Black Saturday. The exact 38.5C figure isn't independently published outside the interview, but the underlying research program and general temperature ranges are well corroborated. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Deakin University/Bushfire CRC firefighter physiology field research program led by Brad Aisbett (upstreams: Raines J, Snow R, Petersen A, Harvey J, Nichols D, Aisbett B (2013) Applied Ergonomics, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre field studies) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Firefighters know how to look after themselves to prevent heat exhaustion - ABC News (seed:sports_and_combat)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574983/ (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23149116/ (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003687012001482 (corroboration)
- https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2015.00322/full (corroboration)