Fighting fire with fire

Australia, 1977

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Episode of Series “The Researchers”.
Focuses on the research CSIRO have undertaken to understand wind, the most complex of environmental factors associated with bushfires. Sometimes exceeding 150 kilometres an hour, these winds can uproot huge trees, throwing them about like matches.

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