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[annarti]

Holy fuck Victoria.

They showed one shot of about five burnt out cars that were in positions as though they'd had a crash, because the fire front changed direction while they were on the road and they'd crashed trying to get away. THAT is my worst nightmare right there. Just seeing the fire coming towards you, bush on either side of the road, and there's NOTHING you can do about it.

South Australia has been SO lucky this heatwave. We've had little patches but nothing serious. This? Is worse than Ash Wednesday.

News says the fires were lit by arsonists. If they're caught, they'll be charged with murder. I bloody hope they are.

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It's not really, no. Today's been the worst day of it so far, because of the cool change. The wind's been coming down from the north for the last... weeks of heatwave, but today it turned around, so it blew the fire over a bit and now it's going back north again.

We've sent about a hundred of our firies and Elvis (water-dumping helicopter) over there to help deal with it. Not all of them cos we're hardly out of danger ourselves yet.