[InfiniteNow]

New thread created:

http://hypography.com/forums/earth-s...ment-fire.html

[anglepose]

I found it some concern while staying in the university guest house in salt lake city that a large bush fire was raging some 1km from the accomadation and was intressted to see the firefighters way of putting it out was to first spray the fire to cool it then shovel dirt onto it to stop it recatching however it was very small scale incomparison to this austrailian one which sounds realy bad and those SI's showed the extent of the fire and the drought effects.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

Victoria burns. That is, my home state of Australia, has had almost 200,000ha of land burnt to a crisp over the past week due to raging bush fires.

600,000 hectares were burnt someone said at one stage.

I hear, on last night's ABC news, that the Victorian fires have started again. True? Any pics?

[Jay-qu]

So more than a month and 700,000Ha later the fires have not been completely stamped out! We got some re-inforcements from the US this week and they should be ready to get out there by friday

[InfiniteNow]

<You thought this was going to be about the President when you clicked the link, didn't you? Ahh... the social consciousness is an interesting thing, indeed.>

So, we've had strange record amounts of rain in central Texas. This area is normally known for drought and heat this time of year.

How are things down under?

[Jay-qu]

At the moment just fine, we finally got some rain to ease the drought - which resulted in flooding, but I would say we are far from out of the woods in terms of our water strorage. The ski season has so far been the best in a few years with some actual powder hanging around the higher peaks

[Michaelangelica]

A small contingent of Australian volunteer bush fire fighters has just left for California, to try and help.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

A small contingent of Australian volunteer bush fire fighters has just left for California, to try and help.

From what I've seen on the news they can use all the help they can get! Thank you to Australia, you guys always seem to come through when you are needed!

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

A small contingent of Australian volunteer bush fire fighters has just left for California, to try and help.

We've been living in a pall of smoke for weeks now...we can sure use the help!

Source: SF Chronicle 7/12/08

But some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground,
Buffy

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Buffy

We've been living in a pall of smoke for weeks now...we can sure use the help!

But some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground,
Buffy

We had to rely on your smoke up here on the Columbia River for the last couple weeks, but now we have some of our own. This fire, burning about 30 miles from me, was likely sparked by that lightning storm I reported on in the Weather Watching thread. Off to get some updates from the Noon News: Wildfire spreads near Mt Adams | Local News | kgw.com | News for Oregon and SW Washington

Smoke on the water tonight,