NSW Bushfires - Oct 2013

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Thoughts go out to those who have lost property or have been affected by today's bushfires across NSW. Hopefully no Pradopoint members are amongst those affected.

Take care guys....

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I haven't been near a TV, radio or newspaper all day and am only just heading home from work now so I knew nothing of this. I too send out my thoughts to those. Also my gratitude to the ones fighting the fires and helping support the community.

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I'm smack bang between a bunch of them at moment.. They are huge, didn't see the sun at all yesterday.
Currently 94+ burning around NSW.

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Stay safe buddy! Got caught in a bush fire once with a fellow from CFA when I had to do emergency repairs on their radios.... Their car was engulfed in flames for 4-5 seconds with me inside it.... afterwards, no plastic or rubber was left.. tyres melted, handles melted, mirrors melted paint charred and pants soiled.

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I'm far enough from the fronts to not warrant worry. Terrible the damage that's been done. Spent half of last night shuttling people and donated goods back n forth to the affected areas. Heaps of people in evac centres currently.

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Well things are still abit hairy across the state! Up around Newcastle there have been some more road closures this morning including the Pacific Highway through from Wyong to Swansea, I have just Heard that the Newcastle Link road from the M1 (F3) to Newcastle has been closed this morning.

I work on the Central Coast and I am just keeping an eye on things so I can get back home today also!

Anybody on here who is a member of any of the Volunteer or regular Emergency Services, thanks for what you are doing and keep yourselves safe, unfortunately in my job I see the victims of the fires when they do get burnt and end up requiring my colleagues and my skills!

Keep safe everybody!
Cheers
John

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Tough times indeed I hope everyone comes through intact. Thoughts with you guys.

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I'm in Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley.

About 9000ha lost so far, luckily from all local reports no homes lost. The smoke coming of the Hungerford Hill fire was frightening to see.

So thankful and proud of my local emergency services teams, time to pray for some decent rain to assist these guys and girls.

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My sister was evacuated from Winmalee last night. She can't speak highly enough of the CFA.

Thoughts go out to all those that were unfortunate to loose their homes and belongings.

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Yes, terrible events over there in NSW. Unfortunately, people like to live amongst the trees in the hills and the risks are pretty high. Our southwest and south coast, especially places like Denmark, are areas of high fire risk. The government only managed less than 20% of their annual target for burn-offs this year due to a change in "policy". Tell that to the people that lose their homes during this coming fire season. Good on ya to the vollies and professional fire fighters.

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Terrible destruction from the footage I have seen. Our thoughts are with them.
Fantatsic job by the Fire Fighters, RFS, CFS , Waterbombers, Police etc and all the volunteers.
Then you see the lady cooking sausages for the firefighters for a quick lunch on the go as they are exhausted. What a champion she was.

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I volunteered at a Bushfire Relief Station after the Black Saturday bushfires in Vic. It certainly brought home how many people are affected with a disaster like this. My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones, homes, businesses, livestock, etc.

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My Father is a volunteer at Winmalee RFS completed his training a month ago and this is his first fire!
in a bit of irony the Winmalee crew were out fighting the fire at Lithgow when the fire sparked up at Winmalee.
My Father did the night shift at Lithgow on Thursday night to arrive home on Friday with 2 fire trucks out front of his house and the fire at the back fence he and his neighbours are the lucky ones without damage.

The difficult thing with these fires is they are burning in the valleys and they cannot do anything due to access which is where they do watch and wait.

My thoughts are with those who have lost there homes and the volunteers who are trying to save them.

Pete

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I live at the bottom of the blue mountains and we have bags packed ready to go just in case. Kel and the kids can head east and I will stay at mums to help with the house, which is about as well protected as you can be living in amongst the bush. Has an elaborate high pressure supply around the property and large sprinkler system on the roof. Run by 2 petrol powered pumps and one underground 3 phase electric bore pump that can be run off a generator if need be.

I left work early on Thursday because there were two fires within 2 kms of home. One of which ended up within about 500m of the house with two helicopters bombing the bush behind across the roads house. Black leaves and ash falling from the sky for about an hour.

The fuel load is just so high at the moment. We haven't had any sort of reduction burning in my area since the last bush fires on Christmas day 2001. That fire ended up burning the grass around the pool that is about 20m from the house. Everything is just so dry, our lawn and paddock is just dead/brown grass and crunchy to walk on. Doesn't take much to set it off when there is over 10 years of fuel laying on the ground that is that dry.

I feel for those that have lost everything, I can't imagine what that must be like. My Brother in law's sister lost her house at Yellow Rock on Thursday. They all got out ok, so that is the main thing I guess. Hopefully no more live are lost and some rain will come to help the proper 'heroes' in yellow.

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Cheers for your update Sako and stay safe....