Australia Wildfires

[Rex_Tremende]

Let us hear from our friends in Australia. Very sorry to hear about this latest disaster.

Regards,
Rex.

[Good Egg]

Here, here, Australia has always come through for us when we've need them... The Great War, The Second War, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam (that we stayed away from) backed us up in the Falklands conflicted, Yugoslavia, Iraq and AFG... No stauncher mate.

"Advance Australia Fair"

[Jock Scot]

I too have been watching the Australian news with dismay. It just goes to show how insignificant we humans are, when nature decides to flex its muscles and that's without some humans(?) giving nature a hand. My heart goes out to all those afflicted by this disaster.

[BEEDEE]

It would seem that some of the fires may have been set deliberately. Given the loss of life, I hope that anyone they catch doing that is locked up and the keys thrown away.

Brian

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

It is just a very sad situation. The arial pictures of the devistation in Australia on the BBC website show just how wide spread the fires were. The interviews from the survivors on the news last night were heart breaking.
Lets hope the worst is over. I hope all X-marks members are safe and sound.
Sara

[1MUNK3]

I have friends there that I have yet to hear from and a fear the worst. I've contacted others to check and have yet to get a reply. I hope and pray they are alive and well.

[Panache]

The part of Austrailia that burned was where a good friend of mine came from.

My thoughts to all those effected by the fires

James

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

It would seem that some of the fires may have been set deliberately. Given the loss of life, I hope that anyone they catch doing that is locked up and the keys thrown away.

I'll add my 2 cents here.

As far as I'm concerned a prison sentence is to lenient, maybe a one off case of corporal punishment needs to be looked at here, due to the large loss of life, and after all it is mass murder...

why should these one or two scumbags get to live their days out locked up while others had no chance...

The world is far to PC now...

Our thoughts are with our convict cousins...

Phil C

[Pleater]

Knowing how a fire can restart spontaneously on a hot summer afternoon in England, even after extensive damping down, I am highly suspicious of the claims that fires were restarted deliberately - that is what was claimed originally - restarted.

It seems now that there is a hunt for arsonists, people want to have someone to blame for so many deaths, but the areas where the fires have been appear to have consisted of houses surrounded by vegetation, narrow roads and nothing to stop a fire.

The weather was reported as windy, very hot, and drought conditions - it would only take a discarded bottle to start a fire, and then it was just a matter of a very little time.

Wasn't there a similar situation in the US some years ago? I think I remember when fire went through a neighbourhood where there were quite a few trees and bushes in gardens, planted some decades before and as the area matured, it became a disaster waiting to happen.

Anne the Pleater

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

Have some "suspects" in chains at the mo...