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"It's a hot day in early December, and the Tasmanian winds are fierce.
Firefighting teams are stretched, with blazes burning at both Dolphin Sands and
St Helens on the east coast.
They're mopping up at Dolphin Sands, where 19 homes have been lost, but the
fire is still alive at St Helens.
Suddenly, a remote artificial intelligence camera spots a tiny plume of smoke a
few kilometres away near St Mary's, in the middle of tinder-dry bush.
It's 8:30 in the morning. An alarm pings, the real-time pictures are checked,
before fire headquarters is alerted.
A chopper is then deployed from the St Helens blaze to the exact coordinates,
to douse the flames.
From the first alert to extinguish, two hours have passed.
For the tired firefighters still working on the coast, it's a fire disaster
averted."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
