Victoria Bush Fire Appeal
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I'm sure you'll have heard about the bush fires in Australia and the on-going destruction and terrible loss of life. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE5171EI20090208[^] If you'd like to make a donation to help, the Australian Red Cross have set up an on-line donation form (minimum donation $5 AUS) which can be found here: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp?action=showCCForm[^] My thoughts are with those who are suffering. :rose:
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Brian Naylor died ? :(
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I had to look him up but I do remember him a bit. I just can't believe all the deaths. Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
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leckey wrote:
Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
I guess 'cause Australia is an awfully long way away, and shipping firefighting machinery would take too long.
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leckey wrote:
Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
I guess 'cause Australia is an awfully long way away, and shipping firefighting machinery would take too long.
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But as big as these fires are, and as long as they have been burning, I would think someone would step up to the plate.
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Many of the helicopters used were from the US and Canada. We have agreements with them where the equipment is in the northern hemisphere for your summer and down here for ours. While these fires have been burning for a few days there was nothing particularly serious about them until the wind changed on Saturday. All of a sudden there were 100+km/h winds driving these fires and all hell broke loose . The government offered to send in the army but they were refused as they don't have the specialist knowledge or equipment to fight fires that size. They are involved now with the clean up, temporary housing and using their heavy earth moving equipment to build containment lines.
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I had to look him up but I do remember him a bit. I just can't believe all the deaths. Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
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leckey wrote:
Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
We have thousands of local fire fighters on stand-by. The problem is not the number of men to fight the fires, indeed, in some areas it is best to leave the fires to burn themselves out. The real problem is the speed of the outbreaks and the inaccessability of the areas etc... Most places it is way too dangerous to put men into and so they use the 60+ aircraft (icluding two Ericson Sky-Cranes) available for water bombing. My Dad is a Senior Fire Officer in NZ and he has been here twice to fight fires, but only as a last resort as local knowledge is preferred (and safer). IIRQ a group of Kiwis were badly injured a few years ago assisting in Victoria. The tragedy on Saturday night was largely attributable to the ferocity of the wind change that caught many people unawares.
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leckey wrote:
Why is the international community not sending firefighters to help????
We have thousands of local fire fighters on stand-by. The problem is not the number of men to fight the fires, indeed, in some areas it is best to leave the fires to burn themselves out. The real problem is the speed of the outbreaks and the inaccessability of the areas etc... Most places it is way too dangerous to put men into and so they use the 60+ aircraft (icluding two Ericson Sky-Cranes) available for water bombing. My Dad is a Senior Fire Officer in NZ and he has been here twice to fight fires, but only as a last resort as local knowledge is preferred (and safer). IIRQ a group of Kiwis were badly injured a few years ago assisting in Victoria. The tragedy on Saturday night was largely attributable to the ferocity of the wind change that caught many people unawares.
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury
I understand to a point; I've watched CNN cover the Santa Ana winds/fires for a few years now. I think having been to the area, feeling so in touch with it, I almost feel like I am losing something even though I know that probably does not make sense. I know AUS has had issues with fires for years. This just really, really saddens me. If I had my own choice to live anywhere in the world it would be Victoria, AUS.
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I'm sure you'll have heard about the bush fires in Australia and the on-going destruction and terrible loss of life. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE5171EI20090208[^] If you'd like to make a donation to help, the Australian Red Cross have set up an on-line donation form (minimum donation $5 AUS) which can be found here: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp?action=showCCForm[^] My thoughts are with those who are suffering. :rose:
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I've got cousins in Ferntree Gully and others living out near some of the other affected areas. Just found out they are OK. Kinglake and Marysville are two of my favourite places to ride and to see Marysville demolished is unbelievable. I was there a few weeks back, have a coffee after spending the day riding through some of (IMO) Australias most beutiful termperate rain forest.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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I've got cousins in Ferntree Gully and others living out near some of the other affected areas. Just found out they are OK. Kinglake and Marysville are two of my favourite places to ride and to see Marysville demolished is unbelievable. I was there a few weeks back, have a coffee after spending the day riding through some of (IMO) Australias most beutiful termperate rain forest.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
This is the worst fire in Australian History. Saturday the temppertures where 49c and winds at more than 100kmph. The fire was so intence that they where unable to get any where near the fire to fight it. Country Fire Athourty are very experinced fire fighters of this nature but in those conditions there where not a lot of time time stop it ravaging through towns taking every thing its in path. @ follow my tweets @ausi1 for up to date info. Some real life stories form people in the fires http://wimmera-news.blogspot.com/ For the latest information on the fire http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_updates.htm[^ Join the faceboog group to support the fire fighters http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=123739265622[^] Hope this help those who want to follow this tradgity.
modified on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:13 AM
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I'm sure you'll have heard about the bush fires in Australia and the on-going destruction and terrible loss of life. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE5171EI20090208[^] If you'd like to make a donation to help, the Australian Red Cross have set up an on-line donation form (minimum donation $5 AUS) which can be found here: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp?action=showCCForm[^] My thoughts are with those who are suffering. :rose:
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Hi Guys... I live 10km from Churchill, one of the large fires, and work at one of the Power Stations threatened by them. Saturday was 46oC and high winds which made things worse when the fires started. The skies turned dark orange with all the smoke in the air, quite disturbing. Many friends have evacuated and some have lost houses and even loved ones 8^( The small weather change brought some relief in 5 minutes of rain! that covered the area in water born soot. Later rains helped more but they were still short lived. The fires here, as well as the other main ones, are still very much out of control. Deaths are rising, currently 133, doubtless there will be many more as people are being discovered perished in their cars after leaving too late. Power supplies were under threat, lessened now but still vulnerable. All in all a very sad situation and a long way to go. Some more information on news.com.au and other news wires. Hope that helps give a better picture. cheers -S