Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre update

The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has just released a new Fire Note that summarises a report into fire behaviour and suppression activities at a pine plantation in New South Wales.

The full report is available on the Bushfire CRC website. This report is fairly large (16.5mb) with many photos and diagrams. A lower resolution version (5mb) is also available at:

http://www.bushfirecrc.com/research/a11/publicdocuments.html

All editions of Fire Update (brief research summaries) and Fire Note (more detailed outcomes of Bushfire CRC research) are available for download on the Bushfire CRC website:

http://www.bushfirecrc.com/publications/index.html

New online at www.bushfirecrc.com

• Report – Moisture content in decking timbers exposed to bushfire weather

• Article – Cars put to the test under bushfire conditions. Includes our YouTube video of vehicle burnover experiments

• New CRC – keep up to date with progress on the bid for the new CRC