I spent ten years in a specialist fire fighting group and saw a number of crown fires that I thought were horrific but nothing like these ravening monsters. Flames more than twice the height of the trees they consume.
A former bluestone courthouse in Kiandra (Snowy Montains) New South Wales was burnt the walls still stand but the glass in the windows MELTED!
Glass melts around 1400 degrees Celsius.
A couple of million acres have burnt not far to the south of me there has been some tension but so far we are lucky.
The danger for us is that the drought sits heavy, my dams are drying up and trees are dying, the grasses crunch underfoot. it is a tinderbox.
Kangaroos and wallabies have moved out onto the road edges for grazing and each road becomes a killing ground.
I am in wine country and it seems that there will be little to pick as all the grape that has survived is smoke tainted.
The disgusting part of disaster is the political posturing.
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