Fires in Oz.. Dave are you safe where you are? - Page 1
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author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2013, 08:43:10 pm
content: Hey Dave, are you and Your Family safe ?Do see terrible Pictures in the news..

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2013, 10:57:09 pm
content: Thanks!I hope that damage is low and that people are safe.

author: vk2hmc
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 03:54:40 am
content: Here is a map of the fires.http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_content.cfm?cat_id=683I'm in North Epping and Dave is slightly north west of me in Castle hill.Right now, its ~ 34 degrees - very hot and dry.The sunlight has a reddish brown tinge making everything outside look surreal.The smell of smoke is very strong.No fires around us this year, there has been a lot of back burning leading up to the fire season.I am hoping and assuming there will be no fires around us.There is a 50/50 chance of rain tomorrow, if rain does not eventuate there will be serious fire problems Tuesday/Wednesday.--marki

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 04:12:01 am
content: As the others have said, yes, I'm safe, I'm in the Sydney Basin and the fires are in the Blue Mountains were I go canyoning.EEVblog's resident IT penguin gnif is in the mountains though and about to evacuate (see other thread). I wish him a safe passage and hope his house comes out unscathed.Fires rarely take hold on any scale that is the huge suburbia of Sydney, except those on the edges of major national parks etc.

author: vk2hmc
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 07:16:28 am
content: You are safe up there Dave, we back onto National forest, if a fire starts in Hornsby shire it is going to be hell.Do the rain dance or whatever you can to appease the gods!--marki

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 11:34:37 am
content: ... and it's only October!

author: TMM
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 12:03:09 pm
content: The sad fact is that a lot of these fires are probably deliberately lit. Bloody fire bugs.

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2013, 05:21:30 pm
content: I hope of the Australian members are safe , and these fires don't take off where you are, it's on our national News everyday, so please that care & care of your families guys.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 22, 2013, 02:40:03 am
content: When I was about 13 or 14, my cousin and I found some cigarettes in one of his mom's coat pockets and we took them into a field to smoke them. We were messing around with the lighter and would light the grass on fire and then step on it. Then we decided to let it get a little bigger and suddenly found it was too big to stamp out with our feet.So we ran down to the other end of the street and then headed back towards the field like we were coming from another direction and knocked on someone's door and said we think we see a fire in the distance. She called the fire department and they came fairly quick and put it out (they were less than a mile away from the field)There was an airport on the other side of the field as well and one of the pilots said he saw two kids in the field but couldn't describe them.So luckily it was just an empty field with roads separating ti from any houses so no damage to anything other than some dry grass. But we never did that again, we were too shaken up by it.