Case Study
Perimeter Monitoring Keeps Residents, Responders Safe At Australia Morwell Coal Seam Mine Fire
Perimeter Monitoring Keeps Residents, Responders Safe At Australia Morwell Coal Seam Mine Fire The 14,000 residents of Morwell, Australia, didn’t know what to expect when an underground coal seam mine fire broke out near them on February 9, 2014. The 4-mile by 2-1/2-mile burn began as a grass fire in the tinder-dry wild land area outside of Morwell. The grass fire ignited a brown coal seam, resulting in an open-pit mine fire that burn