Sounds like some super jumbo flakes from Ancuabe, might fit the bill.
I believe that firefighting crews in Australia have changed their tactics so that they are putting themselves in less risky situations. Better communications, satellite mapping and the availability of aerial water drops - would have played a part.
But this does sound like a product that would be taken up here in the firefighting services - but probably more importantly as part of a residential home based protection strategy.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/0...ns-demand-a-complete-rethink-of-fire-science/
Manne, like all the media, says CFA volunteers “fought the fires gallantly and selflessly”. They did not. They are not allowed to fight raging fire fronts. This policy is correct and only nine years old. Before that, volunteers were regularly burned to death in what I dubbed in the 1990s the Gallipoli Syndrome. Most people are unaware of the CFA’s true role. This contributed to the catastrophe.
The CFA is not the fire brigade. If they can’t knock out a bad fire in ten minutes, they revert to plan B, which is to contain wildfire within safe perimeters and suppress it on the less dangerous flanks. There’s no Plan C because the only thing which stops firestorms is the weather.
