This is the script used for the FireText updates showing new fire, and other emergency, alerts for the state of Victoria, Australia. Not sure if it would work with any other agency's data - probably not, but you never know... Originally intended to send SMS messages and limit responses based on latitude and longitude range, but I ran out of time and never got those parts finished/tested (this was one of those things that didn't quite make it by the end of the allocated weekend). Prints fine to stdout though. UPDATE: Three years later I finally finished this and got the SMS part working, plus added conversion of the Lat. and Long. figures to a UTM/WGS84/GDA94 map reference and adjusted it to only download updates if they've changed since the last check.