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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 243087" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I forgot to give you the ABC link - here is an even better one.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/</a></p><p></p><p>It's not about someone called Justin, it is "just in" so it is ALL the latest news. While the fires are topical then news will be most up to date here. The link is getting updated every hour, so if you want to stay in touch with this, just keep refreshing the page.</p><p></p><p>Death toll is now up to 84 which now makes this the official worst ever fires. They still haven't got into all areas affected by the fires; the areas still not checked out are also the worst hit, so we know the toll is going to be higher. To date, 750 homes gone. It's almost comical in a macabre way because the subtitles on the TV news are lagging behind in terms of numbers; the text says "700 homes" while the newsreader has the update from five minutes before (or less). It shows us just how fast the information is being updated.</p><p></p><p>husband was just saying (and I agree) that the ferocity of these fires matches what we went through in 1994, but these are covering about ten times the area and also involving more urban areas instead of national park (in our case). But when people talk about exploding trees, intense winds driving the fire into unbelievable ferocity, we can believe it because we've been through something similar. The fire is so big it creates its own wind that drives the fire further forward. The temperatures in the path of the fire are driven incredibly higher, into the 50s (C - over 120 F and higher). I remember the hot wind, it was so hot it killed the grass, roots and all. Just from the heat of the wind, that grass never got hit by flames. Aluminium road signs burned, thick hardwood posts on the roadside burned through top and bottom, leaving the centre white and unburned (we still have one of these in our front garden, we souvenired it weeks later, the charred stump is still in the original place).</p><p></p><p>I was wrong about everyone surviving in Marysville - one confirmed death. Considering the total devastation, the entire town wiped off the map - only one death is a testament to the incredible efforts and coordinated hard work of the firefighters and evacuation organisation.</p><p></p><p>If you look at the map you will see just how close all this is, to one of Australia's biggest cities. The fires are as bad as they are, because some so-and-so is out there lighting more fires. They will catch the culprit, our people are very good at finding the firebugs. And the more fires the firebug lights, the more evidence he is leaving. They will get him. He's wanted for 84 murders now. He'd better pray the police get to him first.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 243087, member: 1991"] I forgot to give you the ABC link - here is an even better one. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/[/url] It's not about someone called Justin, it is "just in" so it is ALL the latest news. While the fires are topical then news will be most up to date here. The link is getting updated every hour, so if you want to stay in touch with this, just keep refreshing the page. Death toll is now up to 84 which now makes this the official worst ever fires. They still haven't got into all areas affected by the fires; the areas still not checked out are also the worst hit, so we know the toll is going to be higher. To date, 750 homes gone. It's almost comical in a macabre way because the subtitles on the TV news are lagging behind in terms of numbers; the text says "700 homes" while the newsreader has the update from five minutes before (or less). It shows us just how fast the information is being updated. husband was just saying (and I agree) that the ferocity of these fires matches what we went through in 1994, but these are covering about ten times the area and also involving more urban areas instead of national park (in our case). But when people talk about exploding trees, intense winds driving the fire into unbelievable ferocity, we can believe it because we've been through something similar. The fire is so big it creates its own wind that drives the fire further forward. The temperatures in the path of the fire are driven incredibly higher, into the 50s (C - over 120 F and higher). I remember the hot wind, it was so hot it killed the grass, roots and all. Just from the heat of the wind, that grass never got hit by flames. Aluminium road signs burned, thick hardwood posts on the roadside burned through top and bottom, leaving the centre white and unburned (we still have one of these in our front garden, we souvenired it weeks later, the charred stump is still in the original place). I was wrong about everyone surviving in Marysville - one confirmed death. Considering the total devastation, the entire town wiped off the map - only one death is a testament to the incredible efforts and coordinated hard work of the firefighters and evacuation organisation. If you look at the map you will see just how close all this is, to one of Australia's biggest cities. The fires are as bad as they are, because some so-and-so is out there lighting more fires. They will catch the culprit, our people are very good at finding the firebugs. And the more fires the firebug lights, the more evidence he is leaving. They will get him. He's wanted for 84 murders now. He'd better pray the police get to him first. Marg [/QUOTE]
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