Fire

[JDNSW]

We have a fire in the forest near here. It was started by lightning this afternoon, and RFS is in attendance (see Fires Near Me - NSW Rural Fire Service (http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me), it is the Garlings Rd fire). It is no immediate threat, It is about 25km due north of here, and the wind is currently west and due to change to S tonight, then drop.

Our local brigade has been told to stay put.

John

[AndyG]

Stay safe, I followed the Dubbo airport fire, a fair way from you I think.
It's going to be a tough summer

Andrew

[V8Ian]

Stay safe John.

[Sitec]

If you have any inkling that its headed your way, and unless you have a decent fire pump and are well organised, then leave while you can. We've had a few close ones here, and now have a large diesel twin impeller pump and two 25mm layflats that run around the house with decent branches in each end. Wife is under instruction to grab the fire box and dogs and go to a pre arranged location (one in each direction from the house). If in the event she gets caught (as I'll usually be on the fire truck), she now knows how to deal with it and most importantly protect herself. Leaving early is the safest option. Stay safe and good luck.

[Ancient Mariner]

I added last Saturday in Post, Question for the Firies about the fire we had Friday. I checked for anything smouldering Friday night and all day Saturday
Sunday going up the house for lunch and big clouds of black smoke.The fire had started up again and the tractor was burning and about a meter off the long grass Just proves you cant be to careful


AM

[The ho har's]

Stay safe John, I know how isolated you are from the major roads. Will keep our fingers crossed for you:)

Mrs hh:angel:

[JDNSW]

Had 8.5mm of rain overnight, which will help no end. If the RFS map is correct, it seems to be contained on the other side of the bitumen.

From reports this morning there has been a fairly big effort thrown at it - I expect they are having visions of another Warrumbungles fire, where the early control efforts were roundly criticised in the recent inquiry.

John

[wrinklearthur]

----- The fire had started up again and the tractor was burning and about a meter off the long grass Just proves you cant be to careful

That's rotten luck AM, a few bobs worth of damage on the tractor, tyres alone will cost a bit.

I have seen tractors that have been burnt worse restored.
What model Inter is it, looks like a 696 but really cant tell?

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/87584d1416829991-fire-101_0604.jpg
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[JDNSW]

From the latest information the fire did cross the main road, but was contained last night and this morning was claimed to be behind a bare earth perimeter all the way round. The road was still closed when I went to town this morning, but was reopened about 1400 this afternoon. The latest update on their website as I write is 0951, but reopening the road suggests an improvement since then. On my way into town I passed several RFS utes and a council tanker heading out, but on the way home passed a fire truck heading for town.

Sounds pretty good, but it is certain to still have embers, and a few days dry weather followed by a strong winds could be a case of "here we go again"!

John

[Ausfree]

We have had some lightning strikes around here also. This boat on Lake Macquarie was destroyed by a lightning strike, last night.:o

BOAT DESTROYED AFTER LIGHTNING STRIKE | NBN News (http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/2014/11/25/boat-destroyed-after-lightning-strike/)

[Bushie]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152833766995552

For those with facebook.

Martyn

[Bundalene]

Wow that looks a bit angry, kerosene bush going up. The National Parks did a bit of burning during the winter months. We had about 500 acres back burnt on our block which borders the Goonoo Forest, as well as having had lots of fire breaks put in.




Erich

[460cixy]

I added last Saturday in Post, Question for the Firies about the fire we had Friday. I checked for anything smouldering Friday night and all day Saturday
Sunday going up the house for lunch and big clouds of black smoke.The fire had started up again and the tractor was burning and about a meter off the long grass Just proves you cant be to careful


AM

That old girl will live to fight another day. Sunday here was a worry big storm build up lightening and high winds with out a drop of rain and 40c

[JDNSW]

Last night I talked to one of the men who was on the Elong truck when it went to the fire on Monday night. They went up Goan Ck Rd and Brennans Road, and found Brennans Road badly overgrown and in very poor condition, unlike the roads in the area close to here, which are pretty good, as Erich comments. I find this rather surprising, as Brennans is an obvious through road for exactly the circumstance I mention above, equipment travelling from locations in the SE to an incident in the north. This would be especially the case with the Old Mendooran road closed as it is at present (building a new bridge across the river), so that they would otherwise have had to go almost all the way into Dubbo.

John

[Ancient Mariner]

Hi Arthur The tractor was a 706 a good strong tractor but not suitable for steep country 460cixy I don't think it will live again as it has been parked there since cyclone Larry when the old man parked his boats in the shed and the tractor outside either without a tin on the exhaust or the wind blew it off :censored: many harsh words and never forgave him:(

Noel

[snowbound]

That old girl will live to fight another day. Sunday here was a worry big storm build up lightening and high winds with out a drop of rain and 40c

How hot was it! I was supposed to be out with my SES unit
doing marshaling for a stupid bike race but because of the TOBAN in the national parks it was cancelled, flaming relief I can tell you!

[460cixy]

How hot was it! I was supposed to be out with my SES unit
doing marshaling for a stupid bike race but because of the TOBAN in the national parks it was cancelled, flaming relief I can tell you!

I was inside with the ac on but a mate was fitting ducted air when his boss got stuck in the roof then panicked not a good situation to be in at all.

[JDNSW]

I went to the Elong brigade's Christmas party last night. Apparently the young blokes got the fire trucks decorated for the Christmas party last weekend - so when they got called out on Monday night they went in full Christmas regalia, much to the amusement of the other brigades. Most of the tinsel and other decorations got brushed off in the scrub, and all that was left is a wreath of shiny baubles on the bullbar.

The fire is still being watched, and some of the blokes were cynical enough to suggest that the National Parks blokes were making sure it keeps going as they get really good overtime pay. Also some comments about the NP people keeping discovering 'sites of significance' wherever they tried to doze a stopline.

John

[460cixy]

I went to the Elong brigade's Christmas party last night. Apparently the young blokes got the fire trucks decorated for the Christmas party last weekend - so when they got called out on Monday night they went in full Christmas regalia, much to the amusement of the other brigades. Most of the tinsel and other decorations got brushed off in the scrub, and all that was left is a wreath of shiny baubles on the bullbar.

The fire is still being watched, and some of the blokes were cynical enough to suggest that the National Parks blokes were making sure it keeps going as they get really good overtime pay. Also some comments about the NP people keeping discovering 'sites of significance' wherever they tried to doze a stopline.

John


I have heard this before about parks. A volunteer mate of mine calls them sparks&wildfires not parks&wildlife