Fires Raging NSW

[j.sabourn]

What amazes me with Bush fires out here in Oz. After they have gone through and left the place devastated, the following year the bush is back to normal as the whole area soon regenerates itself. The bush is mainly Eucolyptus trees. John Sabourn

[Doc Vernon]

Yes indeed these Trees seem to regrow at some fast pace!
However there is such a vast Area that there is always so much more Fuel even after the Fires!
So the following Year if conditions again are bad,there is no shortage of Fule to go up once again!
Suc a great expanse of Land here in Australia,not onlt NSW BUT ALL OVER!
Cheers

[Keith at Tregenna]

Have rellies in mooroopna, touch wood, no bad news ? K.

[Neil Morton]

Mooroopna is in Victoria Keith a long way from the NSW fires, however our turn will come. It's 29deg today here in Vic with a northerly blowing. All the undergrowth will dry quickly if this keeps up.My thoughts are with you Doc up there in the Blue Mountains.

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks Neil
I do hope that you wont get any of this mate!
Cheers and thanks

Pics One is in Sydney so it shows just how far the smoke and Embers travel,thats about 110km away!

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Other Pics are near us at Bell

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI Vernon.
Glad to hear that you are OK, keep those sprinklers on the roof, and if you haven't done it already get some plastic bags and fill them with sand and stuff them in your down pipes, that will block your down pipes then fill your gutters with water that will help to douse burning embers which is one of the main reasons for fires in houses.
I know now that someone or something was looking out for us 9 years ago when we sold our house in Mt Riverview in the Mountains, we couldn't go through five years of fires again and having large helicopters dumping water on your roof. Mt Riverview for mates overseas is about two miles as the crow flies from Springwood and Winmalee, and were put on evacuation alert on Sat.
A friends house where I used to go for my writing group was burnt out in Yellow Rock bad place only one way in and out. .
No wind down here today Vern so it should be a bit calmer up there tomorrow.
Look after yourselves
Cheers Des

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks Des all that has been taken care of allready!
I may have to be offline for a spell as they are now predicting a wind change and that means Blackheath will be in the path!
Allrteady all residents are being told to prepare!
Lets hope it wont come to this
Say a few Prayers please!
All the best to ALL.
Vernon

These are the worst Fires to ever hit us here in NSW!

This is just in case!
Lithgow and Mt Victoria fires could now well merge making it a really serious situation for us here in Blackheath

So till later and i hope that i will still have a Computer!
And a life !
Cheers

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Update from the Rural Fire Service on the Springwood bushfire: more than 60 fire fighters worked overnight to contain the Linksview Road fire, which has burnt more than 2100 hectares of bushland. The fire has been downgraded to "Watch and Act". At this stage, 81 properties have been destroyed, with 37 damaged. The number of properties damaged or destroyed will rise. Evacuation centres are open at Blackheath Community Club, Springwood Sports Club and Lithgow Workers Club.

NB PLEASE hold All Emails till futher notice
Thank You
Vernon and Irene

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI Vern
Good luck. My wife is on the phone to her friend in Springwood, very worried about what's going to happen.
Anyway We'll be praying for you both.
Cheers Des

[cappy]

keep your pecker up Vernon regards cappy

[Richard Quartermaine]

The wind is due to come in tomorrow afternoon at a modest 20 to 30 Kms from the fires at Mount Victoria. But it is the gusts that are the real problem. We in Katoomba share your alert, Vernon that applies to both of us and we are fortunate to live opposite the Blue Mountains Rural Fire Brigade control centre. The big one about ten years ago came up to our back fence at nightfall with a roar and the Magnificent Firies just about had kittens because we were between it and the control centre across the road. A great flurry of activity on our part and a bit like the old slapstick movies. I thought my next door neighbour was not there so I had my garden hose spurting into his place as well as my own until he yelled out and and as I shone the torch on him he looked like he had just fallen in a creek. About six fire engines and about thirty capable firies stopped the fire in it's tracks.

Richard