The Pyros are going to be out in force this coming Summer. Keep your eyes peeled.
If you get an idiot lighting a campfire near you on a hot day, walk over & tell 'em to put it out. Better to be safe than sorry.
kiwijims said
06:39 AM Oct 13, 2015
And if that doesn't work, chuck a bucket of water over him, or the fire, depending which gets heated up the most.
K.J.
brickies said
07:36 AM Oct 13, 2015
Best thing to do is report the fire , Small fire grow to big fires
The Doo crew said
12:46 PM Oct 13, 2015
Just come through that part of the world, so much bush burnt off, never seen it like that in 30 years. Always wonder where the wildlife goes to escape??
Been early morning driving to beat the heat & very little moving about, had to break for one Skippy only from Kunna's to Hedland. Plenty of cattle around Derby way but no natives.
Rosiebear said
06:14 PM Oct 13, 2015
Came through there a month ago, and whilst we were on our way up the Stuart highway to Katherine we heard about the bush fires near Fitzroy Crossing in WA, a week later we were parked up for as couple of nights on Ngupan Cliff rest area, and the western horizon was black pall of smoke S to North, after dark western horizon was glowing red..., West of Fitzroy crossing most was burnt out to Derby Turnoff, still a lot of area/ logs smoking.
Nothing on fire down Broome way when we went though there a few days later. But then again it doesn't take much, just one idiot to throw a butt out the window. We were coming up near Devils Marbles the fortnight before and as we came around a bend here was a small grass fire right on the left verge about 500mm in dia just getting started, a car going the other way pulled up just as I started to stop and put it out. could have been huge in that country.
-- Edited by Rosiebear on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 06:14:24 PM
-- Edited by Rosiebear on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 06:16:28 PM
kiwijims said
07:38 PM Oct 13, 2015
Howdy Rosiebear, Welcome to the forum,
"Yes" it appears that most of the fires up in the Kimberley have been deliberately lit,
They have been fighting these fires for months now, they get one under control and another one is lit,
Some have been started by lightning but the majority are the result of some bugger lighting them.
As an ex-firie myself, I know what can happen when they get going, It's not funny sitting on a fire for days on end, I can tell you.
K.J.
blaze said
08:47 PM Oct 13, 2015
mostly lit by the locals, they have been doing it for thousands of years
cheers
blaze
Bushfire ADVICE for Great Northern Highway, east of Roebuck Plains Roadhouse and west of Colourstone, in the Shire of Broome
BUSHFIRE BEHAVIOUR:
The bushfire is contained but not under control. There is active fire within containment lines on the southern edge of the fire.
Lightning in area has resulted in additional active fires.
The incident was reported on 29 September 2015.
The fire has burnt through approximately 300,000 hectares.
The cause of the fire is suspicious.
If you get an idiot lighting a campfire near you on a hot day, walk over & tell 'em to put it out. Better to be safe than sorry.
And if that doesn't work, chuck a bucket of water over him, or the fire, depending which gets heated up the most.
K.J.
Been early morning driving to beat the heat & very little moving about, had to break for one Skippy only from Kunna's to Hedland. Plenty of cattle around Derby way but no natives.
Came through there a month ago, and whilst we were on our way up the Stuart highway to Katherine we heard about the bush fires near Fitzroy Crossing in WA, a week later we were parked up for as couple of nights on Ngupan Cliff rest area, and the western horizon was black pall of smoke S to North, after dark western horizon was glowing red..., West of Fitzroy crossing most was burnt out to Derby Turnoff, still a lot of area/ logs smoking.
Nothing on fire down Broome way when we went though there a few days later. But then again it doesn't take much, just one idiot to throw a butt out the window. We were coming up near Devils Marbles the fortnight before and as we came around a bend here was a small grass fire right on the left verge about 500mm in dia just getting started, a car going the other way pulled up just as I started to stop and put it out. could have been huge in that country.
-- Edited by Rosiebear on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 06:14:24 PM
-- Edited by Rosiebear on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 06:16:28 PM
Howdy Rosiebear, Welcome to the forum,
"Yes" it appears that most of the fires up in the Kimberley have been deliberately lit,
They have been fighting these fires for months now, they get one under control and another one is lit,
Some have been started by lightning but the majority are the result of some bugger lighting them.
As an ex-firie myself, I know what can happen when they get going, It's not funny sitting on a fire for days on end, I can tell you.
K.J.
cheers
blaze