Aussie bush fires

[sam triple]

My Mrs Uncle is part of the RFS in a small town in NSW ,for weeks they've been fighting a bush fire in land ,temperatures this summer have been hitting mid 40s to 50s now coming into winter daytime temps are still mid 20s to 30s only dropping at night ,even had snow reported one evening inland  but as soon as the sun comes up the temperatures shoot up ,everywhere with more than one fire truck is loosing one to try and contain this fire fighting it is no longer an option ,first face timed him about a month ago he looked dead on his feet at that point the fire had claimed 90000 hectares of land to drive around it was the equivalent of driving from Sydney to the Gold Coast ,speaking yesterday it was now over 1 million hectares gone that's the size of Hampshire twice over plus a bit more ,hes fitted pumps next to swimming pool and pumps to his water bore to douse the house  in anticipation of the fire swinging around ,so next time we get a few days of rain think of these poor devils

[figgy]

Always an opposite extreme somewhere, while I feel for them. The folk over here facing floods won't think of Oz much if at all.