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BlueBells said:
Yep, not the best start with fires etc,
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yes my niece was on the farm with fires started by embers on the next farm - it has been so dry down there that their paddocks were dirt however I have seen fire travel over a farm dirt paddock and it travels very fast - however their farm survived. I went through a major fire on the farm some years ago - embers were dropping on the sheep in full fleece and the paint blister on the weather boards on the house and that fire was 2 miles away -life is never boring living down under
 
@johnsalmon

I've been a few k's away about three or four times in my life, and that was harrowing enough. I've a friend whose just gone back to his farmlet, the fire came within a about a kilometre. Just praying for no re-flareups now. Expecting 40 today, not the best forecast.
 
yes our fire period is just starting with a number of small bush fires around the area - pretty safe in the town however
 
I am living next to a park on the western side of me that covers 488,620 hectares and most of it is virgin bush.. Wollemi is an Aboriginal word meaning 'look around you, keep your eyes open and watch out'. so the aborigines treated with respect the last time it had a major burn was back in 1932 when it grew so big they had to stop international air traffic into and out of Sydney since then there has been partial major burns This park is so big and isolated that the Wollemi pines have grown in isolation in on e little spot since before even the aborigines got to Australia I had a farm right on the eastern border - there are currently 6 fires within it
 
@johnsalmon

Do they have fire access tracks there? Late 1970's the greenies stopped the maintenance of the tracks around here, (harmed the flora and fauna, you see) and now, they have to just wait for the fires to get to accessible areal. Very sad, really is. Critters have no hope in there.

Almost looks like rain coming, I'm so hoping for a couple of inches on the fires
 
BlueBells said:
Do they have fire access tracks there?
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very limited our fire brigades are nothing like yours in Vic - not as well trained or equipped. Most of the national parks are not generally for public use so no tracks etc most are virgin bush so fighting a fire in them comes down to waiting for the fire to reach the boundary no feral animal control etc no feral plant control. its a sad state of affairs.
 
@johnsalmon

majority of the fire access tracks were just that, maintained for easy access to fire fronts, and worked very well. They were not open to the public at all.

When all sorts of stupidity was raised to ban fire tracks, one being cost, 4wd clubs offered to maintain free of charge in return for the use of them, but still no.

We might get in trouble for going off fibro topic :D The more Melbourne gets control of the fire brigades, the deterioration is showing. They are fine with buildings, but the CFA are the ones that understand bushfires, and the two fire types are nothing alike. I've heard that from fire fighters themselves.
 
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