Crews use thermal cameras to control fire
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is using a thermal imaging camera to monitor hotspots in a bushfire that threatened houses at Mount Clear on New Year’s Eve.
The fire, near Ballarat, burnt 31 hectares before it was controlled by firefighters.
The CFA’s Neville Collins says crews will continue to monitor the fire and blackout hot spots during the next three days as temperatures are forecast to rise.
“It’s still burning underground in some places and it does reignite, so that’s why we’ve got these hotspots, and then we just extinguish them as they appear,” he said.
“But what we’re trying to identify with our thermal imaging camera is these hotspots before they actually come up.”
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