[SOC] Re: Bushfires

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:53:39 -0600

They actually did a story on it on ABC news today.  "Massive fires in
Australia, firemen say they have them contained."   Boy, that's some goooood
reporting...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Purdie" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Re: Bushfires

> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > p.s. the Fire and related issues are being reported here in B.C...
> > maybe it is a commonwealth thing???
>
> Most likely Paul.
>
> Today doesn't look promising at all for Canberra. Ground temps 35C, low
> humidity, high winds.
>
> I got to see film footage last night and absolutely nothing could have
stopped
> it.
>
> I know the area very well on a street by street basis, my son having lived
> there. The pine plantation [where the fire came from] has a break of
around 500
> metres to a four lane freeway, separated by another 250 metre nature strip
with
> some small trees and shrubs, then another dual road, then houses.
>
> How it leapt all that is totally unbelievable. Some say fireballs just
rained
> down and houses exploded in flames one after another. Now four dead and
possibly
> more expected. Over 200 people in hospital. Even fire stations burned
down.
>
> I thought nothing would surprise me anymore, it has.
>
> I copied some street directory pages from the internet. On this one below,
the
> red "X" indicates roughly where my son's house was. The suburb Duffey to
the
> left has virtually vanished. Most of Holder as well. From what I can
gather,
> most of the upper/left 75% of this jpg has gone up in smoke.
>
> Cotter Rd. is the freeway.
>
> http://my.integritynet.com.au/purdic/temp/holder.jpg - 30K
>
> The next map is more or less a zoom in. Again, Mike's old house is the red
"X".
> I think everything on this map has gone.
>
> http://my.integritynet.com.au/purdic/temp/zeal.jpg - 35K
>
> Terribly, terribly sad. Perhaps worse to come.
>
>
> 72/73's
>
> Ian C. Purdie
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