Singed Series

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

The two fire engines have left my place and only one of Series Land Rovers got singed.



I am on acreage and the next door neighbour was tidying up his block when the lawnmower caused some longish tussock grass to catch fire just as a strong westerly was blowing. Despite having the grass down and kept to a low fuel load the wind blew the fire straight towards my parts Land Rovers and right underneath the latest acquisition the white Fitted For Radio!.

I went stuff the paddock and put the fire out underneath the Land Rover first. One does have to have priorities in life - it gave hot-wheels a new meaning too! .

The wind then decided to spread the fire further down through the paddock into our nature area and raced up some trees. By the time the first fire engine came they stopped the fire going into our other next door neighbour's place.

It is the second time that a neighbour living in the same block was mowing grass that they let grow too tall and it caught fire. It then goes in to our place! With the floods Bundaberg had at the start of the year there is heaps of fuel load around the district.

Oh well one slightly singed Land Rover and a parts one as well. Fire did not come anywhere near the house our sheds and the chooks are now smoky, but otherwise unruffled. It could have been a lot worse!

Thank you to Queensland Fire Service

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

Just some more photographs - with all the fuel load around due to flush of growth after the floods in a number of different states we are going to be in for a bad fire season this year.

Ironically the Series 2A Land Rover in the second photograph also marked the extent the flood water reached our block early in the year during the Bundaberg floods.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[The ho har's]

Good to hear that it didn't cause more damage

Yes Fire season is well and truly on us

Mrs hh

[Lionelgee]

Hello SLow Members,

While there was little damage in the way of vehicles and infrastructure the affects on nature has been considerable. Leeann, my wife has spent a lot of time nurturing plants such as under storey plants shrubs and trees from tubestock up to some of the plants were taller than us.

Most of these plants are gone without a trace - no under storey and no shrubs. There were a couple of birds nests with young in them in the taller natural shrub parts which we are not sure about. Plus a green tree snake took the wrong decision about which way to flee to.

We were still pretty lucky the fire went no where near anyone's house or sheds.

All we need now is some rain - not too much you know any thing less than floods would be appreciated. Bundaberg has had enough of that flood stuff.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Dinty]

And the clown next door (if I lived there ) would be in for some criticism shame about your good wife's hard work restoring the bush, cheers mate Dennis

[Lionelgee]

And the clown next door (if I lived there ) would be in for some criticism shame about your good wife's hard work restoring the bush, cheers mate Dennis

G'day Dennis,

The next door neighbours are pretty much newly minted from the UK. I think he had a hard lesson about how quick fire can move over dry ground even if the grass in the neighbour's place (my block) is kept down low with a minimum of fuel load. Hopefully it will translate to their block being kept a lot shorter than it was last summer. They are very nice people too.

The plants will be replaced and grow again - people, animals, houses, sheds and Land Rovers do not spring back into life after some rain so we were very lucky.

Kind Regards
Lionel