Lots and lots of small fires broken out. Seems they have been knocked down quickly, but still not what you expect in May.Interesting to see this afternoon what happens with all the burn offs when the wind picks up and humidity goes into the 30’s.
The stupid idiots should be ashamed of themselves. Lighting burn-off fires when it was still dry, warm and windy. Couldnt they wait for a few weeks?Rivergirl wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 8:04 pm As Hillybilly mentioned re the fires up here -
Yesterday fire bans finished so residents up here in the hills started burning off. It's so dry up here still. Within 2 hours there were 5 fires within our vicinity that were caused by burns that got out of control, more in other parts of the hills. Same thing has happened today.
Early tonight apart from numerous calls out for the same thing we had a fire break out a couple of houses up the front then 10 minutes later another fire across the road that we back onto. With these wind gusts up to 50kph and the dryness, it's quite scary up here. Thank you CFA, you have been so busy.
In my CFA district (12) the call went out yesterday - no burns Thursday and to extinguish any from Wednesday!Macedonian wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 9:53 pm
The stupid idiots should be ashamed of themselves. Lighting burn-off fires when it was still dry, warm and windy. Couldnt they wait for a few weeks?
Still, they were given the go ahead by CFA. Ridiculous.