Back in January 2006 some clueful person came up with the idea of creating a Google Earth overlay to monitor bushfires in Victoria.
It pulls in the latest image from the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) from their current incidents page about fires and overlays it on the satellite imagery.
Red circles are controlled fires, red stars are contained fires and red fires are “going” (i.e. not controlled or contained).
Thanks for this. Excellent information. I’ve sent it to family o’seas.
Here is another source of info – to put in the context the extent of fires raging in Victoria:
http://www.aus-emaps.com/hotspots.php
More info on how to bookmark/ link to specific locations and/or embed an interactive map into any website is on this page: http://www.aus-emaps.com/bushfires.html