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Parkerville Fires Aerial Map

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:19 pm
by SamW
We have just got our new GPS systems for our fire trucks, so I thought I would give them a try out. I drove around the edge of the fire, as much as I could and came up with this. It took a little cleaning up, but didnt take long. Google Earth is really easy to use, and its just a matter of clicking import files and then you have the basic image. Just to give you an idea of size, it is 3.6km from end to end, and it started on the 3rd of Jan and we are still doing patrols!

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Sam

edited once, removed devon road incident as this is still active

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:31 pm
by wasaint
Great work SamW good to see some one can use there mapping systems well

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:54 pm
by Tyranus
Ahh I see you got it working then, well done!
Yes that was me in LT2 earlier today
Cheers,
Doug

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:59 am
by chrissss
its that close to stoneville station and they called it the parkerville incident??

great job sam. :wink:

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:32 am
by SamW
The fire started between Roland road and Brindle, where the first house was lost, and this is Parkerville's area.

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:29 pm
by Helitak_670
Thanks for sharing, would be good to print off and take down to the station for everyone to have a look.