Terrible disasters on the mountains

 I found this article about the disaster on The Japan Times.
 In New South Wales State of Australia, the firefighters struggled against the wildfires that were stretched over 300 kilometers on Sunday. The main causes of this wildfires are high temperature, winds and low humidity, and also the weather was forecast to deteriorate further Monday and Tuesday.
 When I read this article, I was afraid mountains because I found dangers of disasters lurk in not only sea but also mountains. In Japan, I do not hear the topics about wildfires that were naturally occurring, but recently awful landslides were often occurred after the heavy rain like typhoons and then a lot of people had been killed by them. In this case, only one man died but in February 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria State. There are no mountains which seem to occur landslides close to the KUIS, although we have to consider about disasters in mountains and be careful to do not get caught in them.
Now, I wanted to ask you that 1) What do you feel about this news? 2) Do you have any ideas to escape from disasters?