Fires in Australia

[ac andy]

Hi guys, havent been on for a while. We are in Yarra Glen and the fires came too damn close for our liking. My wife and four kids were home on the Saturday night when the fires came through. I was desperately trying to get home from a limousine job in the city and drove through the fire on the way back into Yarra Glen. It is quite sad up here to see people walking around crying and in a daze with nowhere to go.

I got on a fire truck on the Thursday after the fires and we managed to get up to Kinglake. It looks like an atomic bomb has gone off up there.

As i type this, three weeks after the fires, the CFA siren is sounding again now.

Unfortunately it is not all over yet!

See you guys at Shelbyfest.

Andy.

[Ron61]

I saw in the news here that you could have some lightening and more fires and that they were warning people if that happens to not wait to long to evacuate. Did it happen? I haven't seen anything else after that report. We had over 1,800 lightening caused fires here last Summer but most of the people here got out as they are used to having to leave their homes almost every year. I won't have to worry now for another year or so as last Summers fires burned almost everything that is big around here.

Ron