Catastrophic fire conditions victoria and SA

[Maxhead]

Dry hot and northerly wind are a bad mix for disaster. Hopefully nothing eventuates out of this.
Stay vigilant and report anything you see that is a bit suss...anything!

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[NissanGQ4.2]

Heard about that last night, hope they have it under control.

Just going to look at the CFA site now and online news.

Do you no if any properties / life's have been lost Kris???

[Winnie]

Heard about that last night, hope they have it under control.

Just going to look at the CFA site now and online news.

Do you no if any properties / life's have been lost Kris???

There is no news of bush fires yet I believe. It's a bloody scorcher already!!

[Maxhead]

Do you no if any properties / life's have been lost Kris???

No, not yet mate but its a matter of "when" and not "if"

[NissanGQ4.2]

Be safe guys and girls if your living near the areas that currently have fires

[growler2058]

44 for Adelaide today. I lived in the hills till recently and went through both ash wednesdays, not nice. Joined the local CFS and went to lots of fires that were deliberately lit by @#$%wits

[NissanGQ4.2]

I swear that they had one on the news late last nigh, Pretty sure they were talking about an actual fire in VIC and not just that its going to be extremely bad conditions.

Maybe I just hear it wrong or the beers affected my hearing in vision *L*

Stay safe anyway guys and girls

Already starting to heat up hear us well, got to love living next to bushland, always in the back of your mind esp when u smell smoke that could be miles away

[AB]

Thanks mate, everyone is panicking over here, racing down the street to fill up their tanks, etc...Worst day since Black Saturday down here!!!

The CFA app is great too. Put your address in the APP and set it up with a 10km radius to get warnings sms'd to you for any fires.

I'm about to send the family off to their parents, I'm taking my computer and about to hook up the camper to the GQ and park it in my brothers paddock, the rest of the house and belongings are superficial crap....Save the GQ and camper though!!!!!!

[Winnie]

Well done Andy, get out early don't be a hero. Stay safe

[AB]

One more thing....Stick your head out of the house every half hour at least, look in the hills, smell any smoke?

Loads of people on Black Saturday sat in their house all day watching TV with the A/C on not knowing there was a mammoth bush fire outside their door....

[Cuppa]

The CFA app is great too. Put your address in the APP and set it up with a 10km radius to get warnings sms'd to you for any fires.



How do you set it up to get SMS warnings. I have it set up to send 'push notifications' to my Ipad, but can't see anywhere to put in a mobile phone number (non smartphone) for SMS warnings. Getting something on the phone would be real handy as it's with me all day, the ipad isn't. We live in the middle of one of the Black Saturday firegrounds.

Although well out in the bush at the top of the Strzleckis, we are pretty clear all around the house & are staying home.

Cuppa

[AB]

Sorry mate, not an actual sms to your phone but an sms (notification) from the app on your iphone/android device with the app installed on it.

[PMC]

Dry hot and northerly wind are a bad mix for disaster. Hopefully nothing eventuates out of this.
Stay vigilant and report anything you see that is a bit suss...anything!

REMEMBER TOTAL FIRE BAN!!!

We all know what happened in 2009!



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http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/leave-early/

G'day Lounge Lizards,

To all of our fellow Patrol forum members and their families whom are in these Catastrophic fire locations today in Victoria and SA. Please take care!

Wishing you all a safe and fire-free day!

PS, I fought the Ash Wednesday bush-fires in 1983 when i was in the ARMY. Deployed to the Great ocean road area! My brother in-law is with the MFB in Melbourne! Good luck to all the fire-men and fire-women both full-time and the CFA volunteers. Be safe out there folks!

Regards,

Paul (RLI) & family

[Bloodyaussie]

I was down the Great Ocean Rd back when the Big one came through and it was very scary and surreal.. never want to go through that again!!!

I still feel guilt from the last fires as I was at a party and was sitting in a pool drunk off my head.....

[James_R]

Stay safe and vigilant fellow Patrollians. If you're gonna go, go early. If not make sure your property is prepared correctly and activate your bushfire survival plans. It's pretty humid but effin hot over on the East Coast today so fingers crossed the pager doesn't go off today!

[James_R]

I was down the Great Ocean Rd back when the Big one came through and it was very scary and surreal.. never want to go through that again!!!

I still feel guilt from the last fires as I was at a party and was sitting in a pool drunk off my head.....



I know the feeling BA. I was in Cowra NSW when the Black Saturday fires were occuring and being a former bush firey and a now retained firey I felt like shit the next morning waking up and realising what had happened the day before and I was partying on as if nothing had happened.

[jack]

Here is the CFA incident website for Vic: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-restrictions/warnings-and-incidents/

Luckily I work from home and in a relatively save area. Just waiting for the grand kids to be dropped around as they live in the deep bush.
Stay safe everyone.

Cheers

[jack]

Just heard on the local ABC radio that there is an issue with the CFA website not loading the incidents, so please don't rely on it at the moment http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-restrictions/warnings-and-incidents/

[AB]

Just heard on the local ABC radio that there is an issue with the CFA website not loading the incidents, so please don't rely on it at the moment http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-restrictions/warnings-and-incidents/

I was wondering why nothing has popped up in the last hour or so....Great!!!...Probably got a million people on there trying to use it.

[Coldcomfort]

I hate this time of the year. We own a property in Yea Victoria. I am always wondering if that part of Victoria will burn again like in 2009??

[Bloodyaussie]

Always have the ABC radio on in the back ground and as Andy said stick ya nose out the window every 30 min as at the end of the day it is your best friend and one you can rely on 100% unlike the failures that took place with the monitoring systems and failure to warn people what was actually happening.

Lets hope this is all just talk and before you know it we are all drinking beer wondering what mod to do to our rigs next!!!!!

[AB]

I also got the Uniden scanner and tuned in the 20 local CFA channels....Best buy!!!

Just leave it on scan and listen to whats going on in your area....

[Winnie]

Yeah I got a scanner app on the phone playing over the speakers at work.

[Bloodyaussie]

Yeah I got that app..... have not used it for some time now!!!

Forgot I had it actually .

[NissanGQ4.2]

I also got the Uniden scanner and tuned in the 20 local CFA channels....Best buy!!!

Just leave it on scan and listen to whats going on in your area....

That I believe is the best idea, rather than relying on TV / Radio broadcasts.

I have 10 extra channels on my 4b UFH which are programmed for my local and surrounding areas, and when I hear a heap of sirens I'm straight outside turning the uhf on and scanning.

One of these days I will invest in a desktop scanner, so I can a better aerial range

[Bloodyaussie]

I just went outside to see how hot it is and could smell smoke straight away?????

I am in the northern suburbs and the wind in blowing from Andrews direction which is not common at all, normally comes from northwest or southwest but this is from the northeast??

Could be a small grass fire along the freeway or something like that???

And the wind has picked up in the last 20 min..

[AB]

The cfa site is crashing, no idea mate!!!

[Maxhead]

I am in the northern suburbs and the wind in blowing from Andrews direction which is not common at all, normally comes from northwest or southwest but this is from the northeast??


And the wind has picked up in the last 20 min..

The wind should be North or North North West going by the weather map

Hope its just someone having a smoke!!!

[Bloodyaussie]

Yeah well its gusting so it my just be temporary wind gust from that direction... but could smell that distinctive smell very clearly and asked my neighbour and he could smell it also.

[Bob]

35 Degrees and rising at 10.35am in Bendigo.
No Fires so far (Fingers Crossed)

[Bloodyaussie]

I am sitting on the side of the road with a big grass fire only 1km from my house, about 10 units attending with many police.

From where I am sitting it looks to be under control????

[growler2058]

Bloody hell!!! Dont hang around man unless your surrounds are unburnable, grass fires move frokin quick

[growler2058]

41.7 in Adelaide

[Irish]

The DSE also have a warning map guys, seems to be loading a bit better than the CFA one:

http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-emergencies/fires-today-incident-summary

[krbrooking]

Hey all the misses just checked the cfa site and said there is a fire that has flared up in healesville, so ppl around Andie's way and near healesville just keep an eye on it

[Bloodyaussie]

The DSE also have a warning map guys, seems to be loading a bit better than the CFA one:

http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-emergencies/fires-today-incident-summary

That site it struggling also.. Messaged Andy and he has taken the Dogs and car and caravan over to families and at the time was unaware of the Healsville fire so is now keeping an eye on it, thanks Kev..

[Bloodyaussie]

Tassie getting hammered at the moment, I have friends at Eagle Peaks and have not heard from them...

Where are you in relation to the fires Lucas???

[Winnie]

Apparently it is Tassie's hottest day EVER!

[taslucas]

Tassie getting hammered at the moment, I have friends at Eagle Peaks and have not heard from them...

Where are you in relation to the fires Lucas???

I'm way up the north west. Thankfully a long way away from that area






Apparently it is Tassie's hottest day EVER!

Nah not the hottest, but warm all the same! Lol
Have had a 40 degree day (in the shade) at mum n dads years ago

Tap, crackle, pop

[PMC]

I am sitting on the side of the road with a big grass fire only 1km from my house, about 10 units attending with many police.

From where I am sitting it looks to be under control????

G'evening mate!

Take care and keep safe mate!

Regards,

RLI & family!

[PMC]

Apparently it is Tassie's hottest day EVER!

NA mate,

I lived in Launceston from 2003 to 2008. In 2006 we had serious bush fires that burnt around our property at Windermere to Bridport all across the east coast down to St Helens and the bay of fires, we had a week of high 30's and one day at 41.

Regards,

RLI

[Maxhead]

The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania was 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009

[Winnie]

I just said what I heard the woman on the news say *shrugs*

[MudRunnerTD]

I just said what I heard the woman on the news say *shrugs*

We were watching the same News I reckon. Heard the same claim.

[NissanGQ4.2]

I just said what I heard the woman on the news say *shrugs*

And you believe what you hear on the news????? how many beers u had 2day!

[Bloodyaussie]

It was the ABC man, it had to be the truth!!!!!!

All I know is it is bloody hot but at least I have relief in the form of air conditioning.

When I lived in NSW we had a stretch of about 2 weeks of about 45 every day and my mums house had no insulation nor air conditioning and the overnight low was about 35........ it was hell.

When I moved back to Melbourne to move in with Mags it was the coldest winter in years and the gas explosion meant no showers or heaters ????

[wildgu6]

I just said what I heard the woman on the news say *shrugs*


We were watching the same News I reckon. Heard the same claim.


And you believe what you hear on the news????? how many beers u had 2day!

X1, X2, X3 with the above. Damn hot here today, hit 45*,
Hope our Victorians are all safe and endured no damage today.