Hi all,
I've been in the local fire brigade for 20 years, tomorrow err today, we have an event that is potentially lethal across the state. The conditions are predicted to be as bad as they can get. Any small fire will quickly explode into a large fire.
The messages coming across my pager from the CFA ring of panic and are basically telling local brigades that they could be on their own because of the conditions.
I have never experienced such 'panic' across the pager before.
I am well prepared, we have massive water reserves, several fire fighter pumps, plus our own generator and electric pumps. We will possibly end up with quite a few neighbours here if fire strikes the area.
However in the conditions predicted, nothing is guaranteed. Fire is unpredictable, lots of things can and do go wrong.
It sort of reminds me of 'life' or 'markets', where totally unpredictable types of things can happen, coming out of left field.
Victoria as a state will easily survive, but many people will be affected in any areas that fires ravage. We will not know if it is our turn until it happens, but there are nine more days in the next 100 years to go, if we are lucky tomorrow/ err today.
If you don't hear from me for a while, you will know that I am busy
bye
I've been in the local fire brigade for 20 years, tomorrow err today, we have an event that is potentially lethal across the state. The conditions are predicted to be as bad as they can get. Any small fire will quickly explode into a large fire.
The messages coming across my pager from the CFA ring of panic and are basically telling local brigades that they could be on their own because of the conditions.
I have never experienced such 'panic' across the pager before.
I am well prepared, we have massive water reserves, several fire fighter pumps, plus our own generator and electric pumps. We will possibly end up with quite a few neighbours here if fire strikes the area.
However in the conditions predicted, nothing is guaranteed. Fire is unpredictable, lots of things can and do go wrong.
It sort of reminds me of 'life' or 'markets', where totally unpredictable types of things can happen, coming out of left field.
Victoria as a state will easily survive, but many people will be affected in any areas that fires ravage. We will not know if it is our turn until it happens, but there are nine more days in the next 100 years to go, if we are lucky tomorrow/ err today.
If you don't hear from me for a while, you will know that I am busy
bye