very sad.......even worse that the farmer killed was only in his 40s and was busy driving around others in his community warning them to get out. He was apparently at another farmers place (who escaped) to warn him and his family and got trapped by the fire - what a selfless and brave man !!!!!!!!!
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Cheers Bruce
The amazing things you see when nomading Australia
How very sad - fire is a shocking thing. Was I Victoria when they had they big fires, few years ago, and it was so emotional watching peoples lives and property go up in flames.
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jules "Love is good for the human being!!" (Ben, aged 10)
Yes, Fire is a very frightening thing, like some others on this Forum, I have been right up on the forefront of many major fires over the years,
Many times I have said to myself, " What the hell am I doing here " !!! then I think, some one has to do it, I Volunteered to help the Community and no one was forcing me to do this crazy thing, So we would carry on, get blackened all over, half cooked in the heat, but come home feeling proud of ourselves, especially when you were part of a crew who had just saved a family's home.
There would be no one awake at 3-4 am in the morning when arriving back home, and it was a quick shower, then into the sack for some well earned sleep, only to be woken within a couple of hours, when the Pager would be ringing it's head off, then we would race off and do it all over again .
It took a bit of control on a fire ground , when you are standing there, looking down the snout of a 40mm hose, then see a 6m wall of fire coming straight through the bush towards you, I have had fire jump clean over me and a house I was defending, missing us completely, then setting alight to scrub on the other side of the house, now that's frightening and you are looking for the toilet roll real quick.
K.J.
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From Coast to Coast, We'll see it all.......One Day
Yes, it reminds me of the Dwellingup Fire back in 1961. We had been married about year and I was having a sundown fish for Flathead beside the old Swan Brewery down in Crawley. I was watching the lightening show and could see the smoke but, had no idea what was happening. when I got home I said to my wife of one year, there's been a great Thunder storm and I think a fire down south of Perth. When I saw the headlines the next morning the penny dropped. A whole town burnt to the ground. From memory there no deaths but total devastation. This must spark a memory in a few other West Aussie memories as well.
Simmo.
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Hard work never killed anybody but why take the chance.
I should have added that I dug Blood Worms over on Herison Island to get my bait for the Flathead. The Blood worms were fool proof. I wonder if the worms are still getaball over there these days?
Simmo.
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