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My Turn For A Bush Fire.


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Been watching this one all day from Wattlegrove build up. Massive winds all afternoon big enough to knock down trees and a fire starts in grassland and is now in the gums.

 

A rather nice glow of orange in the sky north of use. Menai is a circus as always when the fires hit but this time the roads remained open. They usually close off the three roads that lead onto the peninsula but not this time and as a result, site seers everywhere.

 

I was supposed to head down the farm tomorrow morning about 2AM but that won't be happening now especaially since the winds picked up again an hour ago.

 

Irony is I haven't smelt much smoke in the air even though the fire is about 1km away from the house. Sort of a weird fire this one.

 

Usually when they approach I feel some degree of worry but I guess the lack of smoke blowing this way has me a little more confident than usual or maybe I and veteran status now being about our 6th fire we have had here since we moved here 18 years ago.:blink:

 

None the less this is a fire being blown by strong wind at night so no aircraft fighting this one at the moment, just 160 tankers of RFS guys doing there best in gusty winds at night.

 

I'm expecting the sky to be full of aircraft and choppers tomorrow morning as they try to control this fire. No houses lost yet but I expect that to have changed by morning.

 

512 Hectares burnt since about 2PM so as you can imagine this is a fast moving fire.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-14/bushfire-in-south-west-sydney-prompts-emergency-alert/9659310

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All good so far except NBN went down two days ago. Copper still working for everyone by us in NBN lost landline, Foxtell and net...GRRRRRRR

 

Friday was insane but it missed us and went to Menai west. Saturday it was in Menai with tourists everywhere. The place was packed.

 

Sunday roads closed finally and it was a ghosttown.

 

Today, Monday, fire moved to Barden Ridge straight in front of our house but is supposed to be backburning before the winds come back this afternoon...

 

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Last two are dumping straight over the road 300 meters away.

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Amazing work by all the firies sent to help. Tankers and pumpers from the Shoalhaven, Norwa, all over the shire, the Blue mountains, the hills districts, the northern beaches just to name the ones I have seen. Supposedly over 200 in total with over 500 guys fighting.

Seen at least 12 different choppers and a seaplane in the air all dumping from the sky.

 

Local McDonalds had a crew come in from the Hills district after 12 hours of fighting , 27 guys in total buying food and a local insisted on paying for the lot.

 

Manager of the store wouldn't have a bar of it. The store paid. Others were treated the same that chose to eat at McDonalds.

Both Pizza Hut and Dominos were taking 50 pizzas at at time around to the firies fighting, again, free of charge.

 

Woolworths and Aldi supplied all the bottled water they had in there stores all delivered to the guys on the fire front.

 

Stories like this are everywhere here at the moment. Makes you extremely proud to be Australian when you see all this going in around you.

 

Been sitting on the driveway in chairs two days now and now I feel I know everyone in the suburb.

 

While I wish this calamity on no body, I truly feel blessed to have been able to see the best in everybody as we all come together in everyone's time of need come together that only an event like this does.

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