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<blockquote data-quote="Australian" data-source="post: 628662" data-attributes="member: 8793"><p>The death toll continues to mount. About 166 people gone now. Many homes have rooves that had collapsed,so no one knows what is beneath them. Over 5,000 people homeless. At least 750 homes gone. no one knows the extent of livestock loss. There were lots of small 2/5/10 acre blocks in that area,so one could imagine there would have been horses,donkeys,alpacas plus poultry etc on them. Many vineyards have been decimated. The area of a lot of the fires is the renowned Yarra Valley. This is the river that runs through Melbourne. There is still 40 plus fires burning in the state of Victoria.The main concerns are to the north of the earlier fire activity,on the western side of the Great Dividing Range ( Victoria's Alpine area) This disaster will be the subject of a huge coronial enquiry. Victorian residents would have to have been the most fire prepared people in all of Australia because of the incidence of fires in that area. These plans will all now come under review. The state had a policy that you either got out early or stay and defend your property. Many of those that stayed died,many died escaping in motor vehicles which in many cases crashed into others and they died by the roadside. The residents just had no time to escape. One family sheltered in a cement bunker that they had built next to a cement water tank. The husband of that family said that he was so thankful that his wife had nagged him to build it. maybe that is an idea for future safety. No amount of sprinkler systems would have saved homes in the inferno at the weekend.</p><p>This event has really brought home the need to care for all our people in our country. Wish it would be a lesson to all that are fighting in parts of the world that it is insignificant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Australian, post: 628662, member: 8793"] The death toll continues to mount. About 166 people gone now. Many homes have rooves that had collapsed,so no one knows what is beneath them. Over 5,000 people homeless. At least 750 homes gone. no one knows the extent of livestock loss. There were lots of small 2/5/10 acre blocks in that area,so one could imagine there would have been horses,donkeys,alpacas plus poultry etc on them. Many vineyards have been decimated. The area of a lot of the fires is the renowned Yarra Valley. This is the river that runs through Melbourne. There is still 40 plus fires burning in the state of Victoria.The main concerns are to the north of the earlier fire activity,on the western side of the Great Dividing Range ( Victoria's Alpine area) This disaster will be the subject of a huge coronial enquiry. Victorian residents would have to have been the most fire prepared people in all of Australia because of the incidence of fires in that area. These plans will all now come under review. The state had a policy that you either got out early or stay and defend your property. Many of those that stayed died,many died escaping in motor vehicles which in many cases crashed into others and they died by the roadside. The residents just had no time to escape. One family sheltered in a cement bunker that they had built next to a cement water tank. The husband of that family said that he was so thankful that his wife had nagged him to build it. maybe that is an idea for future safety. No amount of sprinkler systems would have saved homes in the inferno at the weekend. This event has really brought home the need to care for all our people in our country. Wish it would be a lesson to all that are fighting in parts of the world that it is insignificant. [/QUOTE]
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