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<blockquote data-quote="Marg's Man" data-source="post: 243499" data-attributes="member: 4085"><p>I am so PROUD to be Australian. The assistance pouring in to help the fire victims is so typical of the Australian "help your mates" attitude.</p><p></p><p>THE best source of up to date news is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news website (Australia's answer to the BBC). When Marg & I talk of the ABC, this is the organisation we mean. </p><p></p><p>The people of North Queensland are suffering through devastating floods but they are putting their own problems aside to help the victims of the Victorian bushfires.</p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2487237.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2487237.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Money is pouring in, a tiny fraction of what they will need but more will keep coming. ABC radio said this morning that the Red Cross' special appeal had raised $2 million overnight, other collection agencies and banks are getting more. They don't want material help yet; cash is the immediate need.</p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486666.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486666.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Our bushfire firefighters go to the US most years especially when California is in trouble. They seem to planted a lot of gum trees there and eucalyptus forests burn in a different way to pine so the Australian expertise is needed. Now we have heard that US blokes are coming here. They are just waiting a formal request from the Australian Government which they should be getting soon.</p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2486949.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2486949.htm</a></p><p></p><p>The fires are STILL BURNING, only a great deal of rain will put them out. This link has a photo of the premier of Victoria wearing a bushfire fighter's uniform. He is a junior member of the Rural Fire Service, so he is entitled to wear one of the most honoured uniforms in this country.</p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486760.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486760.htm</a></p><p>I just checked another source, as of 40 minutes ago, (it is now 3.15pm 10 Feb 2009) the Bunyip Ridge area was under ember attack. Ember attack is a blizzard of fine burning particles that blow around like snowflakes; snowflakes capable of starting a new fire...</p><p></p><p>Marg and I have been through fires of similar ferocity (but on a MUCH smaller scale) twice in the last fifteen years. She was actually pregnant with difficult child 3 when they (our eldest three and Marg) were evacuated from our village by boat. I was cut off from them by fire across the road and cops telling me village was gone. I later learnt that he meant everyone had been got out. We got back together when I went to the marina the evacuation boats were coming into. We could not get home for three days.</p><p></p><p>I wonder, if all you can see from horizon to horizon is a wall of flame, does it really matter whether the flames continue another 20 km or another 200 km? Those Martian skies, with no blue at all, are chilling when you know what they mean.</p><p></p><p>We can relate well to the people of of Victoria. When it was all over here there were whole towns in PTSD. How are we going to cope with a whole STATE in PTSD?</p><p></p><p>Marg's Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marg's Man, post: 243499, member: 4085"] I am so PROUD to be Australian. The assistance pouring in to help the fire victims is so typical of the Australian "help your mates" attitude. THE best source of up to date news is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news website (Australia's answer to the BBC). When Marg & I talk of the ABC, this is the organisation we mean. The people of North Queensland are suffering through devastating floods but they are putting their own problems aside to help the victims of the Victorian bushfires. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2487237.htm[/url] Money is pouring in, a tiny fraction of what they will need but more will keep coming. ABC radio said this morning that the Red Cross' special appeal had raised $2 million overnight, other collection agencies and banks are getting more. They don't want material help yet; cash is the immediate need. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486666.htm[/url] Our bushfire firefighters go to the US most years especially when California is in trouble. They seem to planted a lot of gum trees there and eucalyptus forests burn in a different way to pine so the Australian expertise is needed. Now we have heard that US blokes are coming here. They are just waiting a formal request from the Australian Government which they should be getting soon. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2486949.htm[/url] The fires are STILL BURNING, only a great deal of rain will put them out. This link has a photo of the premier of Victoria wearing a bushfire fighter's uniform. He is a junior member of the Rural Fire Service, so he is entitled to wear one of the most honoured uniforms in this country. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/09/2486760.htm[/url] I just checked another source, as of 40 minutes ago, (it is now 3.15pm 10 Feb 2009) the Bunyip Ridge area was under ember attack. Ember attack is a blizzard of fine burning particles that blow around like snowflakes; snowflakes capable of starting a new fire... Marg and I have been through fires of similar ferocity (but on a MUCH smaller scale) twice in the last fifteen years. She was actually pregnant with difficult child 3 when they (our eldest three and Marg) were evacuated from our village by boat. I was cut off from them by fire across the road and cops telling me village was gone. I later learnt that he meant everyone had been got out. We got back together when I went to the marina the evacuation boats were coming into. We could not get home for three days. I wonder, if all you can see from horizon to horizon is a wall of flame, does it really matter whether the flames continue another 20 km or another 200 km? Those Martian skies, with no blue at all, are chilling when you know what they mean. We can relate well to the people of of Victoria. When it was all over here there were whole towns in PTSD. How are we going to cope with a whole STATE in PTSD? Marg's Man [/QUOTE]
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