And Aussie Fire Fighters are right amongst this lot.
K.J.
aussietraveller said
05:54 PM Jul 19, 2015
Their major wild fires now are an ill wind for us here in the Southern Hemisphere, when they have a bad season like this we very often follow them within the next 3-6 months.
Hope all our firies are safe
JRH said
05:56 PM Jul 19, 2015
aussietraveller wrote:
Their major wild fires now are an ill wind for us here in the Southern Hemisphere, when they have a bad season like this we very often follow them within the next 3-6 months.
Hope all our firies are safe
Me also.
kiwijims said
06:11 PM Jul 19, 2015
aussietraveller wrote:
Their major wild fires now are an ill wind for us here in the Southern Hemisphere, when they have a bad season like this we very often follow them within the next 3-6 months.
Hope all our firies are safe
You could be right there aussietraveller, Here in the West, it's the wind that give us the warning,
When I was in the Brigade I used to dread waking at around 2.00am and hear the wind whistling off the hills just behind us, It was a sure sign that we were going to be in for a hard time, this usually proved correct, just about every night the wind would start and with-in half a hour, off went the Pagers. Sure glad those days are behind me now.
K.J.
exa41 said
08:31 PM Jul 20, 2015
Been there ,done that . You can only fight a fire like that from the air or control lines kilometers away and sometimes that doesn't work.our guys and gals are only there in a logistics capacity thank goodness so probably won't get the hot stuff but still very nasty all the same.
kiwijims said
12:43 AM Jul 21, 2015
exa41 wrote
(You can only fight a fire like that from the air or control lines kilometers away,)
I agree with you there, I could never understand that mob of American "fire jumpers" who leap into the fires from aircraft , as far as I am concerned there's a lot of easier ways to commit Suicide than that !!.
K.J.
Delta18 said
10:21 AM Jul 21, 2015
The fire travels so bloody fast it even catches freeway traffic unawares!
You're not wrong about how fast fire can move, Delta 18,
As exa41 said, '' Been there Done that '' I recall one fire I attended where we had to travel at better than 20kph just to keep up with the head fire, this may not sound very fast to some people but, Who can run faster than that for any length of time to keep out of danger !!
And remember fire can double it's speed going up hill,
K.J.
exa41 said
02:37 PM Jul 21, 2015
Hi Jim ,as you will know ,when we were fighting the Blacksaturday fires ,people coming from King lake were breaking the speed limit just to keep ahead of the fire.others poor soles just evaporated in the flames ,I guess it just takes balls to drop into a firefight but not for me. I have done too many extremely large fires and have too much respect .
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-19/california-brush-fire-forces-evacuation-of-more-than-300-campers/6631772
And Aussie Fire Fighters are right amongst this lot.
K.J.
Their major wild fires now are an ill wind for us here in the Southern Hemisphere, when they have a bad season like this we very often follow them within the next 3-6 months.
Hope all our firies are safe
Me also.
You could be right there aussietraveller, Here in the West, it's the wind that give us the warning,
When I was in the Brigade I used to dread waking at around 2.00am and hear the wind whistling off the hills just behind us, It was a sure sign that we were going to be in for a hard time, this usually proved correct, just about every night the wind would start and with-in half a hour, off went the Pagers. Sure glad those days are behind me now.
K.J.
exa41 wrote
(You can only fight a fire like that from the air or control lines kilometers away,)
I agree with you there, I could never understand that mob of American "fire jumpers" who leap into the fires from aircraft , as far as I am concerned there's a lot of easier ways to commit Suicide than that !!.
K.J.
The fire travels so bloody fast it even catches freeway traffic unawares!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-18/wildfire-overruns-packed-freeway-setting-cars-ablaze/6630288
You're not wrong about how fast fire can move, Delta 18,
As exa41 said, '' Been there Done that '' I recall one fire I attended where we had to travel at better than 20kph just to keep up with the head fire, this may not sound very fast to some people but, Who can run faster than that for any length of time to keep out of danger !!
And remember fire can double it's speed going up hill,
K.J.