Thread: Mega fire bears down on Sydney and the Hunter

I find it amusing that people that choose to live in cities with its already filthy polluted air are now concerned about a little bit of woodsmoke
I wonder if these same people feel the need of a facemask at a BBQ or when sitting around a campfire

A little bit of cement in their morning café latte is all that is needed so that they can harden the **** up

What amuses me is that the rest of the state and SE Qld have been breathing heavy fire smoke for months, but it's only an issue when Sydney is affected......

I had a doozy of a lung infection during the worst of the fires and was out in it working every day but no one gives a flying fig about anyone in rural/regional areas.
Sometimes we were lucky to be able to see several hundred metres at the most, we'd forgotten what the sun looked like.

There a reason why regional NSW has always maintained NSW stands for Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong....

Why the RFS won'''t pay for '''game-changing''' respirator masks

Originally Posted by 4bee

Why the RFS won'''t pay for '''game-changing''' respirator masks

**** no i would not use a p3 mask. you cannot work with an elevated respiratory rate while wearing them. they are not suitable for firefighting imho.

I'm not sure how relevant it is, not being a firefighter, but I'm using a Resmed CPAP Mini machine with battery and mask to sleep better and I can't see any obvious reason why a firefighter couldn't wear it.

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Originally Posted by trout1105

I find it amusing that people that choose to live in cities with its already filthy polluted air are now concerned about a little bit of woodsmoke
I wonder if these same people feel the need of a facemask at a BBQ or when sitting around a campfire

A little bit of cement in their morning café latte is all that is needed so that they can harden the **** up

But it isn't "just a little bit of wood smoke" is it? The topography of Sydney makes it very vulnerable to it all concentrating at a low level & it isn't just a bit, it has been every day for weeks & they haven't had the breezes to carry it away to sea. A bit different to Geraldton where you said you have constant wind to carry your smoke inland.

With a Barbecue & Campfire you can freely move out of the smoke if you object to it. Try living with Asthma for a few days under smoke enforced conditions without any escape. It will be a totally different story I'll bet.


I don't even live there, but I have sympathy & concern for those that do, but we recently did have a dill ( new Vineyard development) burning off heaps of wet Willow for days just after rain, FFS. Where are people's brains? But after nearly killing every Asthmatic in the valley they did have the courtesy to apologise.

Then bugger me dead, the Nat Parks mob decided to have a big maintenance burn off without any notice being given to the public. Yep, smoke into the Valley again. They also apologised, how nice. ******.


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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I'm not sure how relevant it is, not being a firefighter, but I'm using a Resmed CPAP Mini machine with battery and mask to sleep better and I can't see any obvious reason why a firefighter couldn't wear it.

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on the fireground?

lack of proper filtration and low of airflow.
they are very different products