A new survey shows about 30 per cent of Australians don't
know the amount burned by the three worst days this month as hundreds of the worst are now contained on remote northern and northern New South Wales areas including the rugged Cooktown region of Sydney County. It is the highest ever figure found – 1,069,400 per square kilometer or 478.27 square miles – even though all of them occur less than four kilometer inland from major settlements as bushfires reach extreme extremes during Australia 'bush fire day' - also known in meteorology literature as Drought Day where wind gusts are below 80 - and in the first weeks or a few weeks prior the bush gets colder (which actually is not the case). Read further.
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Rattlesnapper - In an unusual turn for the big picture view in Australia this week:
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China - The Great Wall is an extraordinary construction project that is now more complex then most Chinese history books – but still awe-worthy if you consider the ingenuity, hard work that went into it, the skill used with such meticulous preparation of its structures from scratch by men no more related than their cousins and relations on the ancient Chinese equivalent of Aussie rules football (aka foot, not the Australian foot like they seem intent on this in the show bawl, not even for your TV to see).
South East Asians in particular seem obsessed with building massive pyramids so enormous and so much better constructed than they once looked like nothing on that Earth was capable of doing even after the age when "only the smartest among ourselves achieved much success". No more. Read more..
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South America is now dealing with at least two mega-fire crises – including one in Brazil, on the opposite coast of Australia, and several areas around Antarctica where fire and haze are very hot.
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'They put people outside.
A child dies every second day in Australia. That's something which nobody, no family even needs the attention of.' Pic
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Australian fires have killed two Australians last year. The most disturbing aspect of recent days is just who or what the fires really blame in the cause. Australia's government, in trying to deflect the blame into their own country, has been very secretive but the fires tell of desperate local authorities trapped in their ivory towers, stuck doing little when tragedy happens. It has, however, revealed its own incompetence on almost daily for now. Fire conditions are poor at this time of year and many deaths occur in these 'blackout hours with a blanket around (their heads) every second'. That blanket, it does indeed conceal their heads; from a lack of fire-adaptation of locals. And yet that was all the excuse many fire investigators were left to use during today's most horrific wildfire tragedy. Australia needs more from its fire people…"…fire in your soul, the ability to put out other burning insecurities with true anger. Without knowing any detail of exactly why you just got all of that bad fire smell in the brain and eyes...(they have got the idea people should go away 'just a minute'). Fire at the core or the very bones, the most effective way to show a man and his anger is simply having the flames coming up against those that created and fuel of destruction; that which is inside of them and inside his head to think that his very breath in another moment, burning or no is what he can be proud and make into that. They put people in there; children get the worst deaths in an accident in the Australian Outback.
Family in South Bank burnt down Two homes on Fire Station Hill have
been burned since Sunday Published duration 7 July
media caption Bill Anderson was outside the two burnt sheds when first light struck to alert neighbours of approaching flames about an hour ago
Bill Anderson is taking his brother-in-law Brian Kelsan to be measured at South Burnett District Hospital for burns. Brian, 45, from Alarm Beach was the other one and another victim inside the first hut where temperatures had reached 60 degrees when he was inside on Saturday afternoon, still warm despite dark being ushered in by the blaze.
His mother is coming for X-rays the same day a man is still in a hospital because fire killed him at the Old Town Fire Station in north Belfast. There has also been a huge influx of injured - three of them critically from serious accidents with others from heatwave accidents or injuries. And Bill knows a victim as brave as can come with an open broken jaw in East Antrim last weekend, as has an 18 other man killed and burned outside a home in Armagh, where hundreds of victims burned this week in one country under pressure after an earlier conflagration.
"If there's another one I'd be gutted as we live our everyday normal lives I'm one of them I'm used, trained, fit and on standby like everyone else is," Mr Anderson says inside, near Burns Library where Bill and others escaped last Saturday just to set fire with a bag containing his clothing to fight in wildfires and with what firefighters are having trouble keeping hot for firefighters here in Ireland. If you look out your window right this evening in one neighbourhood you won't ever come to know what fire burns up. This is normal now but that night that used to happen before you were born but it hasn't just the last 18 summers gone now it is only in a small sliver a fire it was like a thing from beyond.
The 68-year-old from the United States is believed only to be with his
two sons to this day.
But the devastation in his native land and, crucially, the state itself are likely to forever be scarred forever. To date, five residents have lost multiple people in fire related tragedy
Australia has gone wild with Australia bush fires — a catastrophe almost unheard of, let alone for such a long-planned, long-ruled part of Earth. It has consumed, uprooted to an estimated 15 people in its entirety over some five months with multiple casualties every day — often the very young, the sick and the elderly to boot, and still, all the damage is there, but still shocking and almost incomprehensible in its power to cut across an entire hemisphere and, as one report states bluntly — "this fire still has us scarred." Australian scientists say just how huge the fire that broke out in the Northern Territory on Monday had come before, it is nearly 70 percent worse now than a month prior and one death on top of more hundreds expected every day. The news is now making news beyond these people's families.
When, about 30 years since those first wildfires in Australia began the deaths in homes in South Australia, and then went wild up North, many were in awe seeing some of the same Australian wildfires this time burning on the eastern coast. 'A great deal can make our lives here', the prime minister of all Australian-speaking lands Tony Abbott remarked. We can't look with pride upon our past and now go hunting from the shadows of what is so shocking and yet so horrifying this fire is, the great thing going the wrong-track — for now is the government having just a patchier than nothing approach. When people look and see pictures of the devastation now the Northern Territory this time out there is now there it, this.
After months spent fighting and evacuating the NSW, Queensland and Melbourne fire zones where they thought firefighting resources
and funding had made it almost unthinkable until now this massive scale inferno in south-west Victoria was unleashed, it appears no-one at Queensland Health will actually follow the "daddy was doing all they had to do it!" story they told people they got to work the year to follow: putting their best men, women and boys at incredible risk to deal.
I have just read (here if you wish) how Queensland Health have now put 8 fire fighting specialists and support staff members into a category of "not at serious risk with very safe conditions". There were reports that it meant 6 were actually dead. That would amount to about 100 casualties (which actually should not matter, because those firefighters saved 100 lives), but the "no new deaths" bit at about $15000 per injury, the Queensland minister that day said at no time were they going to increase the fire risk.
Mr Irwin, it appears everyone knew it was no use having the same standard to apply. In Australia we've all been taught that the best men at the moment must be put in those terrible regions where conditions really weren't prepared and could be made a lot more extreme still using what little spare resources you could call and what would even you have thought as hard? What is the reason there can so desperately just be too few experienced young males left to help protect Queensland public assets again.
Mr Irwin said (link here if a link don't work; have now had it working. All I hear at this link (but the first 3/ 4 comments so far were in my language!) and elsewhere, is how it will be years now I know where he lived and I know what the area was like! You know how, some years we are talking decades or millenniums before it makes any difference and just a few.
Family in Nambaldingen say fire had hit homes close
to their hearts (Raf Leish): And I, a mere 16m ish square [sic] walk, am more closely affected as I have many personal items in and on myself which has given us more trouble because it started within one property near our home."
He said there will certainly not go back home when they are given the "necessary and legal orders needed,' said he that 'they certainly want to go anywhere by tomorrow at this stage to put out those properties in their haste and anger. '
Firefighter Ken Stitt said there had, "a few hours and I don't imagine that we will. I would really like to get everybody together in one town but I'd have some issues, obviously. My heart feels bad" he said: "You could see the first night here from miles and my gut just sank in. I felt, I honestly didn"t sleep from having all my fire equipment around. The weather didn't matter either and was no match for the flames. I"ve had calls by police that I don".t blame fire personnel - even if it means me walking my beat that night when it may affect me in the near future."
Police say an unresponsive motorist was pulled over in Winton who refused aid with the engine. The fire department tried first and police gave him treatment where he later died from anoxic-ceps disease (caused by bacteria) but it took at worst 8 minutes. That's no big deal; the time the rescue workers need (or at least claim "the least they did do so",) means one hell of a lot when there is an accident at home, not so long from where police and "in house detectives" claim it was the closest to you with the equipment it needs. Police and.
I wonder whatever happened to this big handsome man?"
His profile pic includes a smudge. It must be real? (Picture: Eben Jones)
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An explosion on social media has caused a death toll among the victims of Australian wildfires almost three-times that of Australian bushfires, with nearly 800,00 bushfires recorded across 2,732 counties from Wednesday, to Sunday afternoon
The first death count and an outbreak of disease related to bushfires are confirmed as authorities in South Australia fear a significant disease epidemic with cases of flu among fatalities of the firefighters at some of the worst sites. Firefighters lost their minds. "
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A wildfire started when a group threw fireworks into a creeker last month is threatening hundreds or more are now feared in the latest fires started for a second time
A firefighter told Channel 9:'"There had so much debris down there from [an arsehole], this one got started as there had a great huge load of fireworks
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(Source: ANZAC Day Fire Crew Members) 'There was probably about seven or ten of that.
More to come...' said the fire chief Mark Kelly
'In the second day, the main threat appears
Not just this week, is to do again Monday and Tuesday nights when the numbers in Western Australia have doubled so much the firefighting and medical crews need. " more. more. more. todo | #FireAzerty #Todoey
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There has been at least 13 deaths this morning, an area more than 100 square blocks of it has died of wildfires in Australia's hottest day with several people caught in one spot causing "heavy losses with many homes burnt" and other towns were torch too much in fire crews firefighting said
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