Bushfires.

[Billy ray]

 

[BACCS]

Adelaide still covered in smoke 2 days after the fires started in the Hills

 

[Power Raid]

Adelaide still covered in smoke 2 days after the fires started in the Hills

SO the wind is coming from the Elizabeth direction?

 

[Hamingja]

The Adelaide ones took off so fast. I had Sunrise on in the background either Thursday or Friday morning and they had the SA fire chief on talking about all the planning but there were no fires at that stage. Watch the news Saturday night and all the racing people up at Oakbank have had their properties wiped out.

 

[SM]

....and you're a drama queen. Oh, no, the wind is blowing the wrong way, my washing out on the line will smell of smoke here in Sydney town.

Yeah what a drama queen I am, how silly of me. I guess looking back I overreacted because the fires are no longer an issue nor is the smoke and air quality issues. Silly me!

 

[Billy ray]

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

The Adelaide ones took off so fast. I had Sunrise on in the background either Thursday or Friday morning and they had the SA fire chief on talking about all the planning but there were no fires at that stage. Watch the news Saturday night and all the racing people up at Oakbank have had their properties wiped out.

Its far from over, another heat wave and the fire ground will Come alive again.

 

[CM86]

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/volunteer-firefighters-plead-for-tax-breaks-20191218-p53l3m

Exhausted firefighters who have been on the frontline volunteering for 12-hour day and overnight shifts over the past six weeks to fight the Gospers Mountain megablaze in the NSW Blue Mountains are pleading for tax breaks to help them shoulder lost income and mounting bills.​

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"We're exhausted, we're buggered, and we've had it," the Deputy Captain of the Bilpin Fire Brigade, Jim Newton, told The Australian Financial Review yesterday, adding prior to this year, the longest he had ever had to take off work to fight fires was two weeks.​

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The NSW RFS confirmed that over 760 homes have been destroyed so far this bushfire season, but more than 12,900 buildings had been saved. A statewide total fire ban remains in place through to midnight Saturday​

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"This fire is so big and hot now, it won't go out until we have rain – and there's no rain forecast. Like a lot of the volunteers, it's preying on my mind that at some point I need to get back to work to feed my family."​

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A self-employed rural contractor, including for the Rural Fire Service, Mr Newton returned home from a 12-hour shift this week to find a $5000 tax bill in his letter box.​

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Like Mr Newton, 90 per cent of the Bilpin brigade of 60 volunteers are self-employed or contract workers, aged between 40 and 60, with families and mortgages.​

Surely in these extraordinary circumstances we can find some room in the budget to compensate these people putting their lives on the line?

They shouldn't face going home to financial ruin.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Its just about out to rain over the fires in sa

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Just an insight on the fires.

Black Saturday 2009: 1.1 million acres.
Ash Wednesday 1983: 1.03 million acres.

NSW/QLD 2019: 15 million acres.

 

[SM]

Just an insight on the fires.

Black Saturday 2009: 1.1 million acres.
Ash Wednesday 1983: 1.03 million acres.

NSW/QLD 2019: 15 million acres.

BuT wE'Ve aLwAyS hAd FiReS.

 

[Seeds]

This land was farmed for thousands of years without an issue from bushfires. Yet right now the lefties are blaming climate change. When the problem was from colour change.

Same as the Murray darling, never an issue with drought until the color change. Lefties blame climate change. And Lefties say the right are racist lol. Not they're wrong, just thier no better.

You are such an extreme racist its surprising you are still allowed to post here.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

BuT wE'Ve aLwAyS hAd FiReS.

 

[footyfan1978]

Reminds me of Lorne as a kid.
Holidaymakes should have listened to CFA heads 48 hours ago.
I assume at least 80% did but the odd ones that do not will be not enjoying their holiday right now.

 

[footyfan1978]

full article at theage.com.au/national/victoria/victoria-bushfires-live-homes-lost-as-town-s-defence-breached-20191231-p53ns1.html

East Gippsland fires: what we know so far:
Here is a summary of the main information we have on the East Gippsland fires:

• Four people unaccounted for in East Gippsland.
• Bushfires are raging throughout the state's east, threatening several towns including Mallacoota, Corryong, Buchan and Bruthen. Eight fires are burning at emergency level across East Gippsland.
• More than 200 fires have started since Monday and more than 200,000 hectares of land is either burnt or burning in East Gippsland.
• 5500 people are seeking refuge at relief centres, and thousands of people are seeking refuge on the Mallacoota foreshore.
• There are reports of at least 30 houses destroyed, in Mallacoota, Buchan, in the small towns of Clifton Creek and Sarsfield north-east of Bairnsdale, and Club Terrace, north-east of Orbost. Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp describes the property losses as "significant".
• Authorities concede there have been major losses of livestock, fencing, sheds and equipment on rural and farming properties.
• The Princes Highway and Great Alpine Road are closed in both directions east of Bairnsdale
• Premier Daniel Andrews has called for military support, and for the United States and Canada to deploy 70 firefighters to help Victorian crews.
• There will be another update on the state's bushfire situation from the Emergency Management Commissioner at 3.30pm today.

 

[Bluelegs]

Man, I probably spent 14+ summers in Mallacoota with my family growing up. What's happening there today is truly terrifying, my Mum sent my sisters and I a message, distraught. It's surreal to think of the New Years I had up there as a kid and now there are 4000 people just like me trapped there while the town burns and gas bottles explode, waiting for firefighters to sound an alarm so they know when to jump into the water.

What's crazy to me is we knew this was coming, even two days ago when the fires moved closer and closer, where is the Navy to evacuate communities such as Mallacoota by boat? The way our government has responded to this national emergency is pathetic.

 

[Bazzar]

Just an insight on the fires.

Black Saturday 2009: 1.1 million acres.
Ash Wednesday 1983: 1.03 million acres.

NSW/QLD 2019: 15 million acres.

 

[SM]

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Incredible that 60 years later with the better technology and equipment we have, we still had just as much burn..

 

[footyfan1978]

Dig your way to China...

 

[Bluelegs]

When the alert for East Gippsland came it was already too late for those at Mallacoota. They were advised to stay put as leaving would put them in the path of the very fires the warning was for.

 

[HBF]

Fire risk has passed in Mallacoota. Cannot imagine how scary that would have been huddled on the beach

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

You are such an extreme racist its surprising you are still allowed to post here.

Your narcicism strong today

Did your side chick choose her toyboy for new years eve? Feeling down? Had to make yourself feel better by projecting?

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

When the alert for East Gippsland came it was already too late for those at Mallacoota. They were advised to stay put as leaving would put them in the path of the very fires the warning was for.

I thought the fire chief put the point across well how traumatic it was for crews in Buchan working around so much carnage.

 

[HBF]

Still cannot believe the fireworks are going ahead tonight. Its so stupid on so many levels

 

[Bazzar]

Incredible that 60 years later with the better technology and equipment we have, we still had just as much burn..

Don't forget the 870 national parks in NSW where the majority are small and locked, and they have to adopt a "Let-burn approach" the only way they can be controlled is from the air, and obviously that is currently impossible. No wonder such a large land mass has burnt.