Our hearts go out to victims of the bushfires in Victoria, it's truly incomprehensible the magnitude of this disaster. It just looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off. So many people lost and it appears due to arson. Whole towns wiped from the face of the earth. So many people homeless.
I live in a bush fire zone , and even though we've not had a fire through here in the 40 years we've been here, with temperature at 43c on Sunday and everything so scorched and dry from 3 weeks of extreme heat, it smelt and felt like the grass could self combust at any time , just a carelessly thrown cigarette butt and all hell could break lose. Time to get onto council as they do nothing along our road to reduce fire danger. We have done the right thing and not illegally cleared the trees off our land , but now have a situation of having so many dead trees from the drought. We are not allowed to burn off , there is so much red tape to get one through the Bush Fire Brigade and our last request got ignored, it makes me very nervous. Our house being only a few years old had to pass bush fire regulations, we have a 40000 litre concrete water tank with diesel pump and fire hose, but a situation like Victoria , this would not amount to much help. I love the rain we're having so much right now.
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