Panoramic of Kinglake West shortly after the devastating bushfires of 2009, stay safe and be prepared everyone,this season.
Posted Nov 3, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC
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Two people that I knew died that day.
I wonder if the CFA didn't tell us every year that this fire season will be worse because... that when there actually was cause for serious alarm that more people would listen and leave.
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Standing on a hill in Diamond Creek, watching the glow of that fire rapidly approach was a genuinely scary thing.
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My school bus had to stop halfway because of the fires going through Lysterfield/Belgrave. I remember one of my mates not being able to get home, even though he wanted to go fight the fire with his dad and brothers at their property. The next day on the front page of The Herald Sun was an aerial shot of his property, with the house surrounded in flames. They were able to protect the house because they used the water from their swimming pool to hold it off. Crazy stuff.
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Horrific conditions, simultaneous fire fronts, one from the South roaring up the escarpment shown and one from the West travelling through the National park.
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A day to never forget.
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Which day?
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7th February
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I remember going there 3 months after Black Saturday as an 11 year old after Mum took a wrong turn leaving St Andrews Market, it was still raw as hell and even I had tears in my eyes. I hope nothing like this ever happens again.
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As someone whose parents live up there and were there when it happened, can safelt say please be safe this fire season, upon going up days later to clear damage, its harrowing driving past marked cars which were grave sites and still seeing trees smouldering weeks later. Dont be silly around fire
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And climate change now means that on average each coming year will be worse than those before.
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A family member of mines property in kinglake West was burnt to a crisp but very luckily their house was untouched. Also had a close family friend lose their mother and older sibling in Strathewen. When I visit their (rebuilt) house in Strathewen I can still see the burnt trees on a hill in the distance with no regrowth. It’s very chilling to this day, but it’s nothing compared to what it was like when I first saw it 8 years ago. Prepare for fire season, especially if you live in Kangaroo Ground/Diamond Creek/Eltham. This one is forecast to be a bad one.
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Outran/drove that fire from Chum Creek to Healesville. Not an experience I need to relive, nor remember, really. Suffice to say - always know what the conditions are likely to be, think seriously about whether you need to be in a fire risk zone on a high risk day, have a plan, and exexute it early.
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No, unfortunately it is what it is, camera not front of mind at the time, taken with phone from moving vehicle.
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ABC documentary on the events of that weekend,
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Yeh I reckon it's gonna be bad this summer, hardly any rain in winter. I hope I'm wrong... Hate the 40 degree days...