The deadly Australian bushfire tracked

Google Australia engineers have created a Flash map to keep track of
the deadly bushfires ravaging south-eastern Australia and help reduce
the traffic burden to official sites coordinating emergency services.

The fires, which have reportedly claimed more than 100 lives, are
being tracked in real-time with information provided by the State of
Victoria's Country Fire Authority via an RSS feed. The numbers on the
map markers indicate the number of fires at that location and the
colors represent the current containment status of that site (green
represents safe, yellow for controlled, orange for contained, and red
going).