Australia's Black Summer wildfires of 2019-20 are seared into our memories - even more so for those traumatised by their losses in the infernos.
24 million hectares was burnt out, some three-thousand homes and countless livelihoods were obliterated and 33 people were killed.
Many of the most intense blazes of that fire season burned, or began burning in dense eucalypt forests.
Now, the CSIRO and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service have joined forces to produce the most advanced model for predicting the speed and behaviour of eucalypt forest fires.
Dr Andrew Sullivan, CSIRO
Inspector Laurence McCoy, NSW Rural Fire Service
- Rachel Mealey, reporter