collection lost in Grampian fire

[David Dunlop]

I recall a chap in the USA a number of years back suggesting that sprinkler systems be used fighting forest fires, not so much to put them out but basically control where and what they burned. I think they showed it being tried around a small group of cottages and it worked quite well.

I think the idea has also been tried somewhere to control the rate and direction of flow with lava. Iceland maybe.


David

[Tony Wheeler]

Well, I dug up the story about the woman in Marysville, as told by the woman herself to the Royal Commission into Black Saturday. I think you'll agree it's a helluva story, quite apart from the water curtain.

By way of background, Marysville was a picturesque historic town near Melbourne with a population of around 500, which was virtually wiped off the map on Saturday 7th Feb 2009 when bushfire destroyed 90% of buildings and killed 45 people, representing one quarter of the death toll of 173 in what was "the largest, deadliest, and most intense firestorm ever experienced in Australia's post-European history." Marysville is gradually rebuilding but of course little remains of the Marysville which existed before Black Saturday.

http://vol4.royalcommission.vic.gov....ex.php?pid=100