I took this photo from the car while we were on Soldiers Point Road. (bottom left of the map)
We usually go home via Foreshore Drive where the red marker is, but the road was blocked because of the fire to the right of Foreshire Drive in the Mambo Wetlands.
You can see the ocean on the left of the picture and the wetlands on the right.
We were diverted along Salamander Way on the right. The white buildings at the top right of the map is our local shopping centre and our house is on the top left of the map.
As you can see the wetlands isn't a huge area of bushland but it is so close to houses.
The fire brigade had problems getting close to the fire because of the difficulty in driving the trucks into the wetlands.
Helicopters were dropping water bombs on the area and the fire was eventually extinguished yesterday afternoon.
I am assuming the fire was deliberately lit because the weather conditions weren't severe, and the area is only accessible on foot.
How interesting to see the layout where you live Babs. Luckily although fire is not good news there seems to be plenty of wet places round it to stop spreading.
I was reading when up in the night of how Sydney has had around 7foot of rain this year, I was flabbergasted! I was telling Harry in the garden centre & this woman heard me & said she had a son living in Sydney…she said it was the area a but higher up & inland than the city. I know NZ has had more rain than normal too.
@happypat Thanks to La Nina weather patterns we have had wetter weather than normal the last couple of years. La Nina is due to end in February next year and then we will probably go back to El Nino and have hot dry weather again.
We don't get flooding in our area because we don't live near any rivers and because of more rain the fire didn't spread as quickly as it would have during dry weather luckily.
Only the wildlife in this area will suffer, lots of koalas, possums, lace monitors and birds live in the wetlands and their habitat has been destroyed thanks to a group of kids deliberately lighting the fire.
It is a worry having fires so close to so many houses though, but luckily the firefighters had it under control quickly.
I was reading when up in the night of how Sydney has had around 7foot of rain this year, I was flabbergasted! I was telling Harry in the garden centre & this woman heard me & said she had a son living in Sydney…she said it was the area a but higher up & inland than the city. I know NZ has had more rain than normal too.
We don't get flooding in our area because we don't live near any rivers and because of more rain the fire didn't spread as quickly as it would have during dry weather luckily.
Only the wildlife in this area will suffer, lots of koalas, possums, lace monitors and birds live in the wetlands and their habitat has been destroyed thanks to a group of kids deliberately lighting the fire.
It is a worry having fires so close to so many houses though, but luckily the firefighters had it under control quickly.