The deadly wildfire that is that has killed 84 people in australlia and destroyed 700 houses im just wondering is every1 okay???

Hopefully Dark and Bob and Ice (not sure if you live there) are okay? I think they all three live there hope everyones okay

damn wildfires suck i hope every1 is alright over there

im ok guys. the fire is in victoria and parts of nsw, but it hasnt reached metro nsw yet.
plus we had a bit of rain at my place last night, so it should be ok here.

Originally posted by DarkHyren

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im ok guys. the fire is in victoria and parts of nsw, but it hasnt reached metro nsw yet.
plus we had a bit of rain at my place last night, so it should be ok here.

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good to know you're ok. who will hand out poisonous baked goods if you and IW aren't around anymore?

also, dancing kirbys, still awesome

I heard about it from someone who lives in NSW. Hopefully everything's alright. He seemed concerned but was fine so far.

Man, I know a lot of Aussies online...

I was about to go make a thread about this .

IW is in South Australia, so he's safe. Fires are about 30mins from me though, not headed my direction luckly. (im more suburbia).

Death toll is now 171. Ill post links to various recources as i find them for anyone interested.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfires/ Amazing and horifying Images.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfires/ugc-photos.htm user submited photos.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfires/ugc-video.htm user submited videos. (See 'fire as we head for home')
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7878221.stm Some news reports, our states premier is in video at about 1:10, and our prime misinster at 1:35 (british reporter).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7878000/7878257.stm Radio snippets.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7877054.stm MUST SEE! 0:40, see marysville, one town completly wiped out. Our PM again at 1:40
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7877459.stm more videos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2009/australia_fires/7878805.stm Lost more videos.


What people dont understand about these kinds of fires is, its not a matter of doing stuff, then leaving when the firefront gets close, theres litraly no time. On saturday the firefront was moving upto 100km/h (about 65 mph), so by the time you realize, its there, its too late.

As some of the reports say, its like a fireball just moving along. The town of marysville was wiped out in a matter of minutes, and no amount of protection they had could have saved them, not even 10 fire tankers and arial bombers.

Listening to the radio, they put out alerts to some towns saying there is no escape now, your MUST stay and fight the fire. A rather large town, king lake, was surrounded by fire on all sides with it closing in, they managed to hold it off though, and make a break in the fire to get ambulances in and evacuate people out. Still lots of lives lost there though.

There were massive fires here a few years back some lady burnt a love letter and turned out to be the biggest fire here costing millions in damage. Also can't forget Yellowstone's fire, now they got a bunch of naked trees cause of it. Now Yahoo is saying someone did this one on purpose to mass murder people so wonder where this will end up Each fire has an interesting beginning. If someone did do this I hope we can light him or her on fire as there punishment

A quick google of area burnt and stuff and here some figures.

330,000 hectares have been burnt.
that = 616682 US NFL football fields. Calculations Page

Yellowstone fires in the US was 793,000 acres, this is 815,000 acres.

2 major blazes may join making the firefront over 100km (about 65 miles) accross.


Also, in an ironic twist, another state in Australia (Queensland), 1500km north (about 900 miles) is having flood problems..

All you need now is earthquakes and tornados and we can officially call it doomsday Don't worry we are going to get more here in USA right after you

We get earthquakes, just not big ones, were not on top of a fault line so yah.. if you know what i mean?

Also, we dont get tornados as you's do, they do happen sometimes.. just not THAT often.

Wait, you are that close to the fires? Is the air quality still tolerable?

Fires/wind is going away from me, so we dont notice it.

EDIT: Update.
181 confirmed dead, 1000+ houses lost.

RedCross appeal has raised $50+ million, and will keep raising more.

They expect there to be 300+ dead by the time they counted all the bodys and identified them, fires are still burning.