Bushfires in Australia

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

News today that a C130 Large Air Tanker chartered to fight the NSW fires from Canadian company Coulson Aircrane has crashed in the firezone, killing all 3 US Aircrew on board.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/three-...n-nsw-c-661540

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/w...ash-fires.html

Grateful for the worldwide assistance coming to help, but saddened at the cost.

Hi Tony,
Very sad to hear this, it was on UK news as well.

regards, Richard

[hrpearce]

Finally have power back on and can use PC to resize pictures.
Blitz, 6x6, Survivor, shed we lived in that the solar panels were on, current view.

[Philliphastings]

Terrible

I send my regards

Phill

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Heartbreaking to see all the devastation... Don't have words for it, really.
Hope you can all can get back on the horse and pick up your lives after this.



Hanno

[Tony Smith]

What we have seen here are just snapshots of various scenes and personal perspectives of the fire. The intervening time has allowed all aspects of the fire to be collated into a "Big Picture" of what went on, and the New South Wales Government have now released the findings of the official Inquiry: https://www.dpc.nsw.gov.au/publicati...hfire-inquiry/

It is a long and wordy read, but comprehensively addresses the issues.

This is just the examination of the bush fires that occurred in the state of NSW over the 2019/20 summer, and it is important to understand that there were also fires burning concurrently, and sometimes connecting, in the states of Queensland and Victoria. To put some perspective of the scale of devastation, JUST ONE of the NSW fires, the "Gospers Mountain" fire (the fire that burnt my property), burnt out 550,000 hectares (1.35mil acres), and that fire alone was only 10% of the total. In NSW alone, the fires burnt 5.5 million Ha, equivalent to the combined land area of Belgium and The Netherlands. Qld and Vic fires added more still, to 15mil Ha, or 1/6th the area of Ontario.

We have a lot to learn from this.

[hrpearce]

Eight months since our property burnt and we now have about ninety percent ground cover again, the fire was hot. The Duns road fire burnt in seven hours what took three days to burn in the eighty's when I was an active fire fighter.
I am slowly replacing the top shed with two containers and a pod roof. I will add a back wall soon. From what I have been told by fire fighters on the other side of the valley my entire hundred acres was on fire within six seconds of the fire reaching the creek. Glad I was evacuated.

[hrpearce]

Pictures taken when Vicki & I took a drive to the creek Tuesday.