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Diagram showing radiant heat from a fire

Radiant heat is the hot air you feel coming off a fire. It is hottest closest to the flame. Radiant heat can travel easily through glass but not as easily as through something solid such as a brick wall. Radiant heat (and smoke) are what kill most of the people and animals that die in a bushfire, not the flames.

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