Thread: Fire

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

Originally Posted by 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

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

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

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 many harsh words and never forgave him

Noel

Originally Posted by 460cixy

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!

Originally Posted by snowbound

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.

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