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Links
 | Rural Fire History of New Zealand - another FRFANZ website |
| Fire and Rescue Services Industry Training Organisation FRSITO - web site |
| Fire Management Today - journal of the USDA Forest Service |
| National Rural Fire Authority NRFA - web site |
| New Zealand Fire Service NZFS - web site |
| ‘the home of the wildland firefighter’ - web site, US based |
| Forest and Rural Fire Research Programme |
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Aerial
Photos of New Zealand
LINZ has placed access to these on the
web. Help yourself, but be prepared to download some large files if you want
detail!
Weather Maps for
Australia and New Zealand
Are available from the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction, formerly the met. service in Australia. The site
provides weather maps forecast for various periods ahead of time, and are posted
about 12 hours after being calculated.
Global Fire
Monitoring Center (GFMC)
Following the recommendations of the UN-ECE/FAO/ILO
Seminar Forest, Fire and Global Change (Russia 1996) and a number of
international conferences the UN- ECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire
proposed the establishment of an institution which at that time was
preliminarily designated as a Global Fire Management Facility. The
GFMC was inaugurated at the FAO Meeting on Public Policies Affecting Forest
Fires (Rome, October 1998) and is housed in Germany. The site contains a
wealth of information on fires and fire situations around the world.
ABBA = automated biomass burning algorithm. This project is being run by the University of Wisconson - Madison, and uses images taken from NOAA GOES satellites to show where fires are in the western world. It promises to display the information typically within 90 minutes of the satellites scan. Unfortunately, the western world comprises North and South America only.
Fire Appliance
Photogallery
They all seem to be there at www.111emergency.co.nz.
Enjoy!