The Victorian CFA and DSE try to save properties, but their focus is on lives, as it should be. No doubt this point is the focus for fires Australia wide. Lives first, property second.
For all the comfort we city dwellers have, at times we seem to live in a cursed country. Fire threatens our fellow citizens often.
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I had misfiled these stunning photos and only recently came across them in an obscure file. I am sure I kept them for a reason, but I don't know why. I have no memory of the fires around Hobart in 2006, but the photos are quite striking.
Fingers crossed that no lives are lost. Just wondering how your spam situation is since you turned off the anonymous comments option?.
ReplyDeleteWindsmoke, not one since, except when I briefly switched back to the former, and they started to flow in.
DeleteHappy New Year and hope the weather remains good for you
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael. The weather is not too great. It has been very hot.
DeleteI was living in Bendigo when the Maryborough-Avoca fires got going in January 1985. People died, houses and farms were burned to the ground and thousands of animals couldn't escape the inferno. The burning smell and the smell of fear lingered for ages.
ReplyDeleteMore I cannot recall Hels. It must be horrible and I don't want to think about the poor animals.
DeleteI saw some of the fires on the news tonight. They do look fierce and I sincerely hope they get put out as quickly as possible with no loss of lives. I heard that three young people have been arrested for starting some of the fires.
ReplyDeleteRiver, probably too young to be prosecuted. Something needs to be done about that, in all states.
DeleteFor the first time in 30+ years my Dad no longer lives in a bushfire prone area. I am thankful for that as it gives me grey hairs. Going through Ash Wednesday was bad enough and I was only 8. Those images are burned into my brain in the same way as the flames burned into everything that year.
ReplyDeleteThat is good Fen. My Tradie Brother moved to Cockatoo the year after Ash Wednesday and I remember the very visible damage and destruction.
DeleteThey really are stunning images Andrew.. It just amazes me that we have this problem each year, more funds desperately need to be allocated to keeping fire prone areas clear and of course arsonists who are caught ( unfortunately not too many of them) should be as proposed be made to come face to face with the burnt and charred animals and the folk who have lost everything....and then after that, thrown in a dungeon somewhere for a very long time..even if they are only young ratbags, maybe then they won't grow up into bigger ratbags..harsh I know, but all those terrified animals really get to me.
ReplyDeleteAgree about their stunningness Grace, which I guess is why I saved them. I don't disagree with your punishment for those who light fires. Some animals know how to flee from a fire. Most don't.
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