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I feel most remiss in having largely ignored the Australian bushfires in the last week. My attention has been completely hijacked by a coronavirus pandemic.
Australian Fire Series Part 8
Australian Fire Series Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsFV...
Australia fires: 'Apocalypse' comes to Kangaroo Island: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-austra...
Mining Company Announces Drilling Plans for Kangaroo Island Deposit: https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/...
French Island:
http://www.visitwesternport.com.au/fr...
French Island's Former Prison Could Become Chinese Tourism Destination: https://www.theage.com.au/national/vi...
Nuclear Reactors Called SMRs Are Being Touted as Possible Energy Source for Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-0...
Nov 2019 - Celebrating Defeat of Nuclear Plans for French Island: https://environmentvictoria.org.au/20...
Emergency Warning Issued for French Island in Victoria, Home to 100 Residents and a Strong Koala Population: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-1...
Hundreds of Thousands of Fish Dead in NSW as bushfire Ash Washed into River: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/202...
Australia weather: Freak Hail and Monster Dust Clouds Sweep East Coast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRzY...
Hailstorm Sweep Through Canberra:
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-0...
Huge Dust storm Across NSW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esz6n...
Australia's Bushfires May Create the Nation’s First Climate Refugees: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/austra...
Bushfire-Destroyed Homes Should Not be Rebuilt in Riskiest Areas, Experts Say:https://www.theguardian.com/australia...
Forgotten History: 50 Degrees Everywhere, Right Across Australia in the 1800s: http://joannenova.com.au/2019/01/forg...
Hawksbury Council Planning Draft 2017-2040: https://www.thecrowhouse.com/Document...
Canberra Fires: Terrifying Wall of Flames Heads Toward City
28
January, 2020
The Australian Capital is under threat tonight as a massive bushfire emerges amid soaring heat and high winds.
A huge wall of flames moving over hills toward the Australian capital of Canberra tonight.
Images posted to social media show the terrifying display of Mother Nature, as massive flames consume the hills near the city.
“No one in south Canberra will sleep easy tonight. Hopefully the fire will be easier to control once it leaves the forest and enters the grassy plains. Hopefully,” – Canberra resident Nathanael Coyne.
No one in south Canberra will sleep easy tonight. Hopefully the fire will be easier to control once it leaves the forest and enters the grassy plains. Hopefully.
Earlier story:
Canberra Bushfire: A massive bushfire is fast moving toward Ausralia’s capital.
Outer suburbs of Australia’s capital Canberra are under threat from a massive blaze tonight.
The blaze is the worst fire emergency the city has faced since the devastating 2003 fires which hundreds of homes, the Chief Minister of ACT said.
From the emergency servies in the ACT:
“Fire situation near #Canberra is developing and escalating quickly this evening. Residents in southern areas & nearby parts of #NSW should check the latest information now, & then remain up to date through tonight.”
The ACT emergency services authority issued an emergency warning to residents of Tharwa at 4:30pm saying it was too late to leave and to seek shelter immediately.
“The fire may pose a threat to all lives directly in its path,” the advice said. “People in these suburbs are in danger and need to seek immediate shelter as the fire approaches.”
“The fire is also threatening properties in rural areas on Boboyan, Apollo, and Top Naas roads.”
The fire is fast moving and people are evacuating.
The southernmost suburbs of Canberra are within range of possible spotting/ember attacks from the massive blaze in the Nnamadgi National Park. The rural hamlet of Tharwa is already facing the beast.
Embers from the fire have already reached populated areas.
The fires are heading straight for us, chewing up 4000ha an hour. Our suburb is on high alert for potential evacuation. Beyond scared. #canberra #namadgi #BushFireCrisisAustralia
The Australian Defence Forces said the fire may have started when a helicopter landed in the area yesterday.
The bushfire ignited due to heat from a landing light on a military helicopter, a MRH-90 Taipan, which was conducting operations in Namadgi National Park, the Guardian said.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr said it poses the greatest risk to the ACT since the 2003 bushfires, which killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes.
“This is the most serious situation we have faced since the 2003 bushfires,” Mr Barr said.
Winds are now gusting northeasterly at speeds up to 40km/h, according to ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) commissioner Georgeina Whelan.
“The weather this evening is not favourable for firefighters,” Ms Whelan said.
The ESA expects the fire to burn for several weeks.
Heat wave will bring worse days for fire conditions
The ACT has already been placed under a total fire ban for the remainder of January.
Emergency Services have forecast that the coming heat wave, which will bring predicted days over 40 degrees Celsius, will make it very difficult to control the fire.
Much of it is burning in some of the most inaccessible terrain of the rugged Namadgi National Park.
Rural Fire Services Commissioner Joe Murphy said it was also burning quickly and erratically.
“This is not a fire that is operating under normal rules,” he said.
“We’re not going to get it out today, or any time soon. This is going to take significant effort.”
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