King Charles learned how quickly flames can take hold on a visit to the national bushfire lab. Video by AAP
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00:00And I'll come over and introduce you here.
00:09That's one of our star scientists.
00:12And I'll give you directions to the bathroom here.
00:16Yeah.
00:17Okay.
00:18Good luck.
00:19Finger on it.
00:20Okay.
00:21Oh, well done.
00:22We're going, so we've got the wind going.
00:26Well, we did work in the past, so.
00:29So here we've got fire burning in bushfire fuel.
00:32So it's not a real bushfire.
00:33It's scaled down.
00:34This allows us to do repeatable, safe experiments that get studied really, really far into the
00:41details.
00:42But now we're in a much more extreme condition.
00:45This will be about when we dispatch it.
00:47So what we're seeing here is a head fire.
00:49And the head fire is moving in behind it.
00:52It's starting to get a little bit back inside there.
00:55It looks like we've got quite a bit.
00:56So we have warmed up the fuel so that there's, like, a stomach infusion.
00:59And so we're getting point points that are sort of heading at a 600 mil.
01:03We've got a 100% wind speed at the moment.
01:08And that is, that's like a typical series.