Qld / NSW bushfires

[happy_tiger]

To all forum members , hope anyone in the areas being spoken about are all safe and well and remember nothing is worth as much as our own lives

Forget about that collection of WT's jerseys , they aren't that lucky

Just got off the phone to a family member who is close to the Cooroibah /Tewantin area and she has evacuated of her own accord

Remember to make that decision before it is too late

 

[TheDaBoss]

Horrible these fires


Praying for rain

 

[happy_tiger]

Yeah it's pretty crazy from what I can gather , just thinking to myself I was only at Noosa North Shore /Teewah/Double Island Point about 3 1/2 weeks ago reminiscing with Mum about all the good times we spent here

 

[2005magic]

I'm in Jakarta now but looking at the NSWRFS website last night and today. Old Bar near Taree was where my parents lived for 20 years and I still have great affection for the area of the Mid North Coast. All the best to them and the magnificent firies. My hopes and prayers are with them all.

 

[trentrunciman]

To all forum members , hope anyone in the areas being spoken about are all safe and well and remember nothing is worth as much as our own lives

Forget about that collection of WT's jerseys , they aren't that lucky

Just got off the phone to a family member who is close to the Cooroibah /Tewantin area and she has evacuated of her own accord

Remember to make that decision before it is too late

here here...common rain!!!

 

[Muffstar]

We live in Port Macquarie and I have to say the smoke and the colour of the sky yesterday was something I have never seen. I have total admiration to all the people who are involved in trying to put these fires out, at the moment they are doing it tough.

 

[Snake]

The natural brutality of our country is cruel at times ! God speed to all those folks in the areas affected be safe you can always rebuild .

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Bushfire a couple of kms from mine yesterday. Very fortunate the wind turned and the rain came through.

 

[240z]

 A pic of a plane dropping fire retardant over my parents house at Harrington yesterday

 

[JD Tiger]

@Lidcombe_Magpie1 Wow. How terrifying is that. Thanks for sharing Lidcombe, very sobering. Hope everyone is all good, and minimal people were hurt.

 

[NT_Tiger]

As an ex bushfire fighter and having seen, fought, and run from, some big hot fires, looking at some of the pictures is simply frightening. Much bigger and hotter than anything I have encountered, thousands of watts of direct heat. I really hope the blokes on the front stay safe and manage to get some rest so they can go home to their families when it's all over.

 

[happy_tiger]

Mum said they have 37 crews on these fires at Tewantin /Lake Cooroibah

Shame it is a really beautiful area .....heaps of very dry scrub though

 

[diedpretty]

As an ex bushfire fighter and having seen, fought, and run from, some big hot fires, looking at some of the pictures is simply frightening. Much bigger and hotter than anything I have encountered, thousands of watts of direct heat. I really hope the blokes on the front stay safe and manage to get some rest so they can go home to their families when it's all over.

I live in Lake Cathie and i can't praise the firies highly enough. The fires that have been in this area the last week have been horrendous due to the high winds causing spot fires everywhere. Without their dedication there would definitely have been a much bigger toll.

 

[NT_Tiger]

@diedpretty It is truly amazing the coordination involved, and the work they get through without people getting hurt. But it can be a near thing at times. They deserve all the praise they get.

 

[Tim Sheens]

 A pic of a plane dropping fire retardant over my parents house at Harrington yesterday

Looks like the pilot got the drop spot on that time.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Was just listening to the reasonably elderly mother of a man flown to Sydney with severe burns. He suffered those trying to save his neighbour, being the Glen Innes man that died in the firestorm.

At the end of the interview she was asked for any final words, which with the ridiculously long and ferocious recent fire seasons in California, here and in other parts of the world, which are on the back of 13 of the hottest 14 years ever recorded and in on 19 years of this current century, were very pertinent. She simply stated; "climate change is not political, climate change is fact".

 

[Furious1]

Was just listening to the reasonably elderly mother of a man flown to Sydney with severe burns. He suffered those trying to save his neighbour, being the Glen Innes man that died in the firestorm.

At the end of the interview she was asked for any final words, which with the ridiculously long and ferocious recent fire seasons in California, here and in other parts of the world, which are on the back of 13 of the hottest 14 years ever recorded and in on 19 years of this current century, were very pertinent. She simply stated; "climate change is not political, climate change is fact".

It may be fact, but the 93/94 season was just as bad. There is a long way to go in this season and it may well surpass it (93/94) but it’s easy for some who either don’t remember, or weren’t there to simply state this is unprecedented.

Just for reference, then police minister Terry Griffiths stated at one point “ if we only lose 2000-3000 homes in the next 48 hrs we will be doing well”

Fires started in the north of the state and eventually exploded in Sydney and surrounds in early January 94. Lives were lost then too.
Fingers crossed for some weather relief, although it’s not looking promising in the short term.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Was just listening to the reasonably elderly mother of a man flown to Sydney with severe burns. He suffered those trying to save his neighbour, being the Glen Innes man that died in the firestorm.

At the end of the interview she was asked for any final words, which with the ridiculously long and ferocious recent fire seasons in California, here and in other parts of the world, which are on the back of 13 of the hottest 14 years ever recorded and in on 19 years of this current century, were very pertinent. She simply stated; "climate change is not political, climate change is fact".

It may be fact, but the 93/94 season was just as bad. There is a long way to go in this season and it may well surpass it (93/94) but it’s easy for some who either don’t remember, or weren’t there to simply state this is unprecedented.

Just for reference, then police minister Terry Griffiths stated at one point “ if we only lose 2000-3000 homes in the next 48 hrs we will be doing well”

Fires started in the north of the state and eventually exploded in Sydney and surrounds in early January 94. Lives were lost then too.
Fingers crossed for some weather relief, although it’s not looking promising in the short term.

I remember them well as smoldering chunks of bark and scorched leaves were falling on my rural property in Sydney's west, along with the next bad lot a decade or so later. I was also down in Victoria visiting my brother and family at he bottom of the ranges when the catastrophic fires decimated life in many surrounding areas.

Fingers crossed alright, but as one of the most affected countries and one able to afford to effect change, we need to be a leader. Particularly so as we are one of the worst polluters per capita.

 

[TheDaBoss]

There is a severe warning for areas up in the illawara region for tuesday

 

[Tigerdave]

Yeah it's pretty crap in Lismore at the moment, but at least we've only been covered in smoke rather than flames.