[LINK] FW: home emergencies

Ash Nallawalla nospam at crm911.com
Fri Feb 20 06:02:52 AEDT 2009


> From: Tom Koltai

> In the instance of of a bushfire where the front can skip 20 kilometres
> in two seconds, 

This has already been pointed out to be impossible. A few days ago we read:

> Mr Ropar, sobbing at times, said it took just two minutes for the 
> flames to travel 20km, roar up the Sherwin Ranges and explode over the
top.

Which was calculated by Karl to be 600 km/h.

Anyone for 200 km in two seconds?

:-)






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