Tookie's Bushfires update - Sorry if this is a long post
Most of the bushfires up our way are now well under control - I have finally unpacked the car boot and have put the photos up on the walls - I might add we couldn't get them quite into the right place - but as they say a change is as good as a holiday. The smoke has been constant now for ages almost 4 weeks l guess the smoke haze has now affected Melbourne for the past few days.
Now to the important information
Over the last week the bushfires in North east Victoria have burnt out almost 1 million hectares (l can't convert that to your acreage) of bush/ forests/ alpine areas farm areas and parts of some very small town ships - Total of 38 houses last l heard. We have had lots of volunteers and fire people flown in to help - Including 22 fire fighters from the USA.
The front of the fires is talked about as hundreds of kilometers of a burning fire front.
The people in the areas are quite exhausted - from not only fighting fires but the sheer wait - waiting for the fire to come. Thank God at this stage there have been now human deaths
from the fires. It is said that the Alpine areas (our snow fields wont be extinguished until we actually get heavy rains.
Sadly there has been a lot of loss of live stock and farming fences etc. I also heard that a million plus of native animals too have been lost - it is expected that some species may have been lost completed. Needless to say there is virtually no feed for the farm animals and the native animals. Some of the animals that have been rescued are being treated for burns and stress - I scanned this photo from the local paper and l hope it appears in the posting. - However - I guess although a lot has been lost - Lives have been affected and changed - but as l said none are lost. Cheers from Tookie
