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Australia is a country that not only has alot of bush-land but also has a dry and hot summer. This website is an attempt to generate polite and useful discussion on mitigating, preventing and extinguishing fires in Australia, and is a campaign for implementing the Australian National Firewatch Early Bushfire Detection Network.
Did you know that trials of FireWatch stalled in 2011? Did you know that “FireWatch” is an early detection device for Australian bushfires, which can analyse smoke data and send a photograph, map co-ordinates, temperature, wind speed and direction to fire control headquarters within six minutes of a blaze starting?
What are YOUR priorities for putting out / reducing fires ?? ANSWER HERE
Click HERE to see the Survey Results to date
FireWatch is INTEGRAL to the Australian Summer, to STOP bush-fires from escalating. Yet State and Federal organisations would not give up just $75,000 to continue meaningful or useful Stage 2 Trials. Satellite images of hot-spots which may or may not be fires, and Simulation systems are not enough to detect bush-fires early, and put them out before they escalate, IF POSSIBLE.
http://www.firewatchaustralia.com/why-firewatch
Sign into the Change org site with your Facebook log-in, OR sign up with Change or ( and don’t worry, by default your Profile on Change org is private ) and please SIGN THE PETITION – click on the Link below.
HELP MITIGATE FIRES IN AUSTRALIA
If you don’t want to sign the Petition on the Change org site, please GO TO THE PETITION PAGE ( link above ) then please expand and copy the Letter in the Box “Letter To …. ” and print out and post your Letter, OR paste your letter into the Contact Forms for:
the Australian Attorney-General
the Prime Minister of Australia AND
Your Local FEDERAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
( when you go to the Site above, you may have to click on “More Options”. Type your Postcode into the Keyword area and just have “Member” ticked )
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Go to the Blog or to our Facebook Page for Websites which publish current Fire Alerts, and for information on fire prevention, detection and extinguishment issues.
THANK YOU FOR CARING
FUEL REDUCTION IS CRITICAL TO REDUCING THE IMPACT OF BUSH-FIRES
ARE YOU BUSHFIRE READY ?
The most fundamental tool of the bushfire manager is not the fire tanker, the bulldozer, or even the water bomber. It is the match. The only way to minimise fire intensity and damage is by reducing the amount of fuel before a fire starts. Military people refer to this approach as the pre-emptive strike … we call it fuel reduction.
by Roger Underwood – Bushfire Front
If you too are frustrated by Australia’s reluctance to implement effective Fuel Reduction, please lobby the Politicians for pre-emption before fires escalate.
Go in the Survey to have your Say about the new Rural Fire Services organisation for Western Australia. Click on the Picture below.
