It was 38 degrees C here yesterday and the temperature triggered this bushfire. It is still burning this afternoon, but I believe it is under control now.
This photo was taken from our local marina earlier this afternoon.
@thistle Not sure if any houses have been lost in this fire. This time last year there was a fire in the same area and a few houses were lost in that fire.
Goodness, I can't imagine what it must be like living with the constant threat of fires. Brings it home here in this shot as you don't tend to think of fires so close to the water.
Must be scary -- both to know such high temperatures are ahead and to know fire comes with them. Well captured too, to show the closeness and potential danger.
It must be horrible to wait in the season for word of fires and to know the danger the community could be in. In the early naughtiest Dave and I went to USA. At the end of the holiday we took a coach tour of the west and drove up into California after severe fires. It was terrible to see the devastation
@pcoulson 11 degrees, that is almost tropical in the UK ha ha. I was there in April once and the temperature was 13 degrees and the chap who lives next door to my sister was wearing shorts and tee shirt. Ugh.
@jackie8 I haven't heard of any injuries due to the fire, but during the lightning storm on Saturday, a 15 year old chap was hit by lightning as he came out of the sea where he was surfing at one of our local beaches and died at the scene.
@paulaw As you can see there is a lot of bushland here, so it doesn't have to be dense forest to start a fire and when it is so dry it spreads so quickly. I suppose we have to endure fires and you endure blizzards.
@taffy@ceilidh Luckily the closest fire to us has been about 4 km away, we are not really in threat at home, but there is only one road down to The Bay and very often there are fires along Nelson Bay Road so we do get cut off from time to time if the fires jump the road.
Brush fires are pretty scary they can get out of control so quickly. I keep waiting for a drought warning to be issued, I've notice the lake and stream levels are way down.
@bkbinthecity@eyesmile@kathiecb@yaorenliu@nanm@ukandie1@kwiksilver@terryliv Thanks everyone. It has gone quite cool again now. They suspect arson for this fire and this time last year we had two fires locally and they were lit by two 13 year old boys. All they got was a reprimand and told not to do it again. Several homes were lost in the fires. I really don't know what the world is coming too. No cause and effect these days so the kids get away with murder. Oh Dear, get off the soap box Babs. It does infuriate me though.
