'Slots' may accelerate fires

'Slots' may accelerate fires, says researcher. :

"He says satellite imagery has revealed a dry slot moving towards Canberra on the day the blaze hit the city.

'My hope would be that we would have some hours of warning for at least some of these events,' he said."

It's great to see people using their brains because we have a lot of technology, we can obtain a lot of information and so we need the brains and expertise to interpret and use it. This is great thinking and a fantastic way to help us manage what has always been a big problem in Australia.