Australia Fires

[harkback]

Any forum posters from Australia - Victoria. Hope you all are safe and out of the way of the devastating fires. Have had a message from a friend who has lost farm, everything but managed to get all horses away safely. Now just trying to find out if several dog breeding friends are safe. Prayers are with you, the horror stories about burnt livestock are simply tragic.

 

[lucretia]

absolutely agree.

 

[Hels_Bels]

It's awful

thoughts are with those involved and i hope your all safe

 

[henryhorn]

This has really upset me today, seeing those who have lost everything bar the clothes they stood in put life in perspective.
I think sadly we will get much worse stories over the coming days, I just hope those who died felt no pain as their bodies went into shock.
The news said the fire was so hot it vapourised anything in it's path.
My sympathies to anyone involved or who has friends or relatives there, this is a tragedy of a kind Australia hasn't experienced before, and to hear it was started by arsonists..words fail me.

 

[teapot]

Thoughts to everyone concerned - one of my worst nightmares fire

There's a erie photo of a dead horse on the bbc website

not what I was expecting when looking at photos the streets that have been wiped out

 

[Skhosu]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2486871.htm
I cannot get over this guy, sent two children to safety only to find them dead later

 

[bandit]

It's just heartbreaking.

I have a v good friend who's family lives v close, friends of hers have lost a grandparent to the fire, and most of their houses.

I agree also with that persons last comment in as much as get the money you're spending on media to get copters in the air and some water bombs over the fire....

I just can't imagine what they are going through, and what is yet to come. I admire the fire crews and army in thier dealing iwth this heart wrenching saga, and hope that relief will come soon.

Bx

 

[Faithkat]

I have an Aussie friend who lives in Queensland and who has just forwarded an email from a friend who lives in Victoria. It was written just before the fires started :

"In Victoria the temperature has been above 44 all week and they are forecasting another week of 40+ temperatures. Power is failing, trains have stopped running because tracks are buckling under the heat... It's just scorching.
And it seems that the people are not the only ones suffering. Check out these photos of a little Koala which just walked onto a back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. The woman filled up a bucket for it and this is what happened!

The sad thing is this is obviously a young koala who would still be with its mother . . . . . . . wonder where she is . . . The second picture is interesting too as koalas do not normally drink (koala means "no drink" in Aboriginal)