[SOC] Canberra Fires Update

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:31:17 -0600

All this and all it gets up here is a brief mention on (our) ABC.  "Fires in
Australia, 200 homes destroyed".  Pathetic.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Purdie" <[email protected]>
To: "SOC" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: [SOC] Canberra Fires Update

> Among the losses is the famous Mt. Stromlo Observatory, research
laboratories,
> pinewood plantations, you name it.
>
> It is a disaster of catastrophic proportions. Brick houses surrounded by
large
> fire breaks even erupted in flames.
>
> Much infrastructure of the outer city is totally destroyed, parts of
Canberra
> are without power, telephone, gas, water or sewerage.
>
> Nothing further could have been done to prevent it, no matter how much
> preparation or resources made available. Classified as a one in 200 year
fire.
> Certainly nothing as bad in our recorded history for fires and considered
on a
> disaster scale comparable to the total destruction of Darwin by cyclone in
the
> 1970's.
>
> Financial cost is being counted in hundreds of millions of dollars,
eventually
> probably billions.
>
> Thankfully only two lives have been lost and weather conditions are
improving
> at the moment.
>
> 72/73's
>
> Ian C. Purdie
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