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Originally Posted by iceman
From the photo you posted before, with your house in the middle of all that bush, wow what a scary place to be in a fire. Especially if there's winds like there was last weekend.
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truth be known, i wonder if we could have defended it, ive seen pictures of walls of fire 100ft high. fortunately the weather conditions are not as severe at the moment
in my street half the people have left, town is noticably emptier, healesville is taking a battering on the outskirts ( hope aster stays safe)
the firecrews are doing a marvelous job, theres a large operations base just up the road at Wesburn they have 3 spotter helicopters(see pic below) to guide the groundcrews and ELVIRA (
or is it elvis) the skycrane, it is HUGE and yes thats a Semi trailer beside it(see pic below), taken 3ish this afternoon. apparently it costs (so ive been told) $44000 per hour to run.