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Australian bushfire season

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The bushfire season is hitting early this year, pretty big one started yesterday in Perth's northern suburbs, looks like some houses have gone, fortunately no reports of loss if life yet.

It's going to be a long summer ☹️

www.abc.net.au

Live: Massive Perth bushfire rages on amid 40C forecast in 'unprecedented' spring heatwave

A massive bushfire that has destroyed homes in Perth's northern suburbs is raging on, as authorities give an official update on the unfolding situation. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
Bluesaint said:
Are most of these started deliberately? Has Larrimah burned down yet?
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some are deliberate, some are caused by carelessness, some are lightning strikes etc

We had one in Perth a couple of years back, it was caused by someone towing a trailer, the wheel came loose and the sparks started a massive bushfire that destroyed about 50 houses
 

We had some bad bushfires here in Queensland a few weeks ago but thankfully we have had a bit of rain since then with more to come. This will pause our season for awhile and would not surprise me if it kicks off again in the new year.
 
The planet as we know it is doomed.

Yet amidst this, fifa have humans looking forward to flying from continent to continent to follow a hobby.
 
Is there much mitigation planned into the housing developments in Aus, ie wildfires have been part of the natural habitat for centuries, do they build with adequate fire breaks to lessen impact on humans?
Over here we have the opposite with floods because developers and the gov continue to allow developments on flood plains etc.
 
Bedfordblue said:
Is there much mitigation planned into the housing developments in Aus, ie wildfires have been part of the natural habitat for centuries, do they build with adequate fire breaks to lessen impact on humans?
Over here we have the opposite with floods because developers and the gov continue to allow developments on flood plains etc.
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In Sydney we had about a week of heavy backburning to prepare, it got pretty smokey and ofcourse people started complaining about that!
 

Bedfordblue said:
Is there much mitigation planned into the housing developments in Aus, ie wildfires have been part of the natural habitat for centuries, do they build with adequate fire breaks to lessen impact on humans?
Over here we have the opposite with floods because developers and the gov continue to allow developments on flood plains etc.
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Oh, we build on flood plains too. There are some restrictions about building in the bush, but there also rules about medium/high density housing in the suburbs too 🤷🏻

Unless you have seen one, it is difficult to comprehend how big bushfires can be. The big ones over east a couple of years ago had firefronts over a 100km long, and burning embers can jump well over a mile to start a new fire
 
WA Toffee said:
Oh, we build on flood plains too. There are some restrictions about building in the bush, but there also rules about medium/high density housing in the suburbs too 🤷🏻

Unless you have seen one, it is difficult to comprehend how big bushfires can be. The big ones over east a couple of years ago had firefronts over a 100km long, and burning embers can jump well over a mile to start a new fire
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Worked on a sugar cane plantation about 30 years ago outside Bundaberg, watching them burn off the dry stuff was bad enough and that was ‘controlled’! 🤨
Not sure what was worse the speed and intensity of the fire or wildlife that came racing / crawling, scurrying / leaping and slithering out!
 
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