Fire crews ‘scaling back’ at Dava but still in attendance, says HQ
A dramatic indication of just what’s going on in the Highlands as the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service battle with wildfires in both Highland and Moray has been posted by NASA.
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is a free web mapping platform offered by NASA as part of its Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It displays active fire locations in near real-time overlaid on a map
Created to monitor wildfires, the data is collected via satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, making each satellite pass over the same location on Earth on the same time every day. Each satellite crosses the equator from North to South twelve times a day thus also from South to North twelve times a day.
A spokesperson at SFRS told the Strathy that in some areas the service was scaling back but added: “We are still in attendance at these locations.”
We hope to have an update later this morning.
