19 Feb 2024

Learning how fires behave to keep control them in the future

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 19 February 2024

Fire scientists are looking for land with gorse and trees to burn, with the aim of learning more about how fire behaves.

Hugh Wallace is a wildfire scientist at Scion, the Crown research institute for forestry and wood processing.

Hugh is currently in the field at Port Hills, where firefighters are still working to extinguish around 40 hotspots.

Day 1 of Port Hills fire

Photo: Supplied / Alyson Keller