[LINK] another website fiasco - fire alert website

[Richard Archer]

At 3:16 PM +1100 11/1/10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_updates.htm
>that is supposed to be the "incident updates" page for the Victorian
>CFA.

That URL was the page for major incidents last summer.

This summer there is a summary page for major incidents here:
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/warnings_advice.htm

Plus each incident has its own page containing further info.

Personally, I have been very impressed with the CFA site
this year. They have added a lot of extra features and
the site presents a lot more information and is updated
much more frequently than the last few summers. There
are specific write-ups on incidents that wouldn't have
rated a mention on the "major incidents" page last year
with hourly updates when the situation or conditions
change.

It remains to be seen how it handles the load under
pressure of a number of simultaneous major fires.

 ...R.