Date Time AgForce welcomes breakthrough technology to predict bushfires Innovative new technology to predict bushfires will soon be rolled out to ensure there is never a repeat of the catastrophic Black Summer fire season. Spark is a cutting-edge bushfire simulation tool that will be used by firefighters across the country to help better protect our rural communities. It combines current fire behaviour knowledge with state-of-the-art simulation science to produce predictions, statistics and visualisations of bushfire spread, as well as simulating hours of fire spread across a landscape in a matter of seconds – essentially helping firefighters to out-think fire, to anticipate its actions, and to get ahead of it, so they can beat it.