Thread: Gippslands burning again

Originally Posted by Bushie

With trailers I have heard that generally they will not be covered under household insurance, and because they weren't being towed at the time they are not covered by your motor vehicle insurance.

You can get seperate trailer insurance.
Our box trailer is insured for $1000.
It is also covered if it has it's own at fault accident.

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

I hope that all those affected survive and that they come out of it relatively intact, but I have to ask, why can the rest of Aus set their clocks to the wild/bush fires in VIC/SA?
What is different about VIC/SA that makes them burn every Jan/Feb?
I spent a lot of the past 10 yrs in Vic and I firmly believe that Vic seasons should be Autumn, Winter, Spring and Fire!
Agree, heat is a catalyst, but Coober Pedy, Alice and Renmark have similar temps and don't burn as readily.
Again, I don't wish ill upon those affected, just can't fathom it!

Ralph

Well or 100 years or more they were allowing cattle to remove the undergrowth in the bush up there but apparently that is bad for the enviroment but back then even though they had fires it was faught with napsacks, wet hessian bags and fire rakes, now days they still have trouble controling it with 100s of millions of $ worth of aircraft and ground crews with state of the art equipment.

The cattle didnt remove the threat altogether but they made access much better and it made for much slower bunring fires which were much easier to contain.

I cant fathum how allowing a fire to burn with such intensity that it removes everything and sterilizes the soil so nothing grows for decades is good for the enviroment but apparently, more intelegent people than me and others with the same veiws no better so have cancelled leases.

This is just one reason why it is worse now than it has been in the past, lack of access to management tracks by the public so that they grow over and limiting movement of native animals by fencing in is also part of the problem IMHO.

Apparently they've charged one..........21year old CFA member

Originally Posted by rovercare

Apparently they've charged one..........21year old CFA member

Sorry to say , this seems to be the case with a few of the arsons invovled in fires

Originally Posted by rangieman

Sorry to say , this seems to be the case with a few of the arsons invovled in fires

You get those pics of your old mans house?

Originally Posted by rovercare

You get those pics of your old mans house?

Yeah cheers mate my brother is home now , he said there is a couple of burnt patches on the lawn from embers thats it
Thanks again Matt for going out of your way (or sicky beaking)

Originally Posted by rangieman

Yeah cheers mate my brother is home now , he said there is a couple of burnt patches on the lawn from embers thats it
Thanks again Matt for going out of your way (or sicky beaking)

I love a good snoop around