Fighting fires with fertilisers

By Quinton McCallum
March 8 2017 - 10:30am
FIRST STEP: A pioneering flame-suppressing fertiliser trial, led by SANTFA R&D manager Greg Butler, is being approached with cautious optimism.
FIRST STEP: A pioneering flame-suppressing fertiliser trial, led by SANTFA R&D manager Greg Butler, is being approached with cautious optimism.

A WORLD-FIRST project will investigate the possibility of a flame-suppressing fertiliser, which could one day limit the impact of large-scale fires like Pinery and Wangary.

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