Fire Warnings

[FigBo0T]

I'm not talking about the fucking RFS, I'm talking about the endless stream of people going about their normal lives as normally as possible wishing the smoke would blow away and the news would stop harping on about the damn fires.

There was a table of boomers at the cafe the other day who were kinda mourning what's happening. Because their holiday homes were being threatened.

These same people don't give two shits about CC & everyone at the table has travelled o/s recently.

Fair enough. I can't argue that. Some people here were mourning predicted insurance increases.

Some of 'Our' RFS (Sydney outskirts) might not be able to get home to fight the local fires, if they happen.

 

[FigBo0T]

Headline just popped up.
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Here's the article

Fires rage and burn while Sydney, oblivious, parties on

The fireworks were a bad call. From where I sat, in thick, acrid smoke, it felt downright insulting and supported our international image of being the ''poster child for climate change''.

www.smh.com.au

In my 'hood, all the local council, and pub fireworks were cancelled. It was the quietest NYE ever out here.

 

[droenn]

I hear rumours of spot fires in namadgi. If you’re west side Canberra check it out

The ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) advises the community that there are spot fires approximately 4km from the southern ACT border near the remote area of the Namadgi National Park.

There is currently no threat to homes within the ACT from this fire activity. ESA will continue to monitor the current situation in NSW.

This announcement provides very early notice to the rural land holders within the remote areas of the Namadgi National Park. The nearest rural residential property is 25km from the current fire activity.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Which is another way of saying it may be Canberra's turn next weekend...

 

[Elbo]

At the shops getting supplies today, saw a weary woman wearing a Northern Territory Fire and Rescue shirt at the checkout. Shows just how big the effort is

 

[FigBo0T]

I've seen this 6 times in 3 hours while watching a movie on channel 7 tonight.

 

[Haakon]

I’m certainly feeling shit sitting here watching a movie...

Not about me, but I should have been out there. I let the bad impression of the volunteer firefighter culture put me off and I regret that.

When they have time to think about such things ill let them know I have experience and expired tickets and might be useful.

 

[FigBo0T]

I’m certainly feeling shit sitting here watching a movie...

Not about me, but I should have been out there. I let the bad impression of the volunteer firefighter culture put me off and I regret that.

When they have time to think about such things ill let them know I have experience and expired tickets and might be useful.

I know what you mean. Been there, done that, now I'm too injured to play.

Meanwhile, I have 5 acres of gum trees, mulch & firewood piles, 6 buildings, 4 shipping containers, and a bunch of machinery, all bordering reasonably thick forest, to watch over tonight.

 

[Haakon]

I know what you mean. Been there, done that, now I'm too injured to play.

Meanwhile, I have 5 acres of gum trees, mulch & firewood piles, 6 buildings, 4 shipping containers, and a bunch of machinery, all bordering reasonably thick forest, to watch over tonight.

Take care...

 

[foxpuppet]

You are in a dream, FP. City only cares about their amenity. Smoke makes it uncomfortable, smoke leaves, people happy again. Back to BAU.

I listen to people.

I talk to people.

I watch people.

People are going about their merry way, here in the city.

SNAFU.

My suburb is part of said city, yet we live very much on the fringe. the 3 Mile fire (45000 odd Hectares)was stopped within 10km of my house thanks to RFS back burning operations. Between the edge of that fire and where we live is pretty much nothing except almost inaccessible national park.
Our single suburb is home to 3 RFS brigades. One of which is water based for the river folks.
Berowra has very much borne the brunt of many catastrophic bishfires over the years.

Smoke is the least of our worries.

Yet we are good hands.
RFS Commissioner Fitzsimmons is a local, so hopefully he keeps an eye out for us. (My wife taught his kids)

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[FigBo0T]

Take care...

I'm really close to a petrol station. I'm confident the backup won't want this place on fire. But I have a bunch of extinguishers charged and laying about, and a couple of 12v water pumps, just in case.

 

[Scotty T]

Just read coal seems have caught fire in the Gospers Mountain fire creating two new fires after travelling underground. WTF!

 

[FigBo0T]

In New South Wales state alone, 8.9 million acres of forest and bush has been destroyed, while more than 2.2 million acres has been burned in Victoria. The fires are so large they are generating their own weather systems and causing dry lightning strikes that in turn ignite more. One blaze northwest of Sydney, the Gospers Mountain fire, has destroyed more than 1.2 million acres -- about seven times the size of Singapore.

The scale of the blazes dwarfs the California wildfires in 2018, which destroyed about 1.7 million acres, and about 260,000 acres in 2019.

Australia’s Wildfire Crisis: Key Numbers Behind the Disaster

(Bloomberg) -- Australia is in the grip of deadly wildfires burning across the country, triggering an emotive debate about the impact of climate change in the world’s driest-inhabited continent. The unprecedented scale of the crisis, and images of terrified tourists sheltering on beaches from...

news.yahoo.com

 

[FigBo0T]

My suburb is part of said city, yet we live very much on the fringe. the 3 Mile fire (45000 odd Hectares)was stopped within 10km of my house thanks to RFS back burning operations. Between the edge of that fire and where we live is pretty much nothing except almost inaccessible national park.
Our single suburb is home to 3 RFS brigades. One of which is water based for the river folks.
Berowra has very much borne the brunt of many catastrophic bishfires over the years.

Smoke is the least of our worries.

Yet we are good hands.
RFS Commissioner Fitzsimmons is a local, so hopefully he keeps an eye out for us. (My wife taught his kids)

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I'm a bit to the left of the circle. Did you hear where, how or why two people drowned in Berowra Creek last night?

 

[Scotty T]

Apparently a 4.5 million litre water tank has let go outside of Cooma flooding homes. No more info, source ABC FB.

 

[pink poodle]

Just read coal seems have caught fire in the Gospers Mountain fire creating two new fires after travelling underground. WTF!

It's a good tourism opportunity. Look at how good it has been for Turkmenistan!

 

[fatboyonabike]

I see that there is a fire out near Yaouk now, if it spreads to the north the ACT is in real danger..Again!
Lightning also predicted later on..

now spotting into Namadgi...bad case of Deja vu!

 

[bear the bear]

And we have rain in Tuggeranong!

 

[fatboyonabike]

And we have rain in Tuggeranong!

lucky bastard!

 

[bear the bear]

lucky bastard!

'Twas only a tease, unfortunately. Though fingers crossed for tomorrow for 1-5mm