I know right? It’s as scary when in 07 the meteorologists said “if your in Greenberg your times up you need to be in your Tornado safe spot right now.”
@@HGCUPCAKES dang I’ve never been in a bushfire warning but I bet it’s scary like a Tornado warning. (I’ve been in several of those sadly) being from the southern USA
If people are wondering, the Australian emergency alert sound is designed to feel fear inducing and unnatural regardless of language background. It's fast, loud, has an ascending tone and cannot be confused with anything but danger. If you have a bad feeling of impending doom after hearing it, then it worked.
It originally came from a particular TV station's cyclone warning..."title card", for lack of knowing a better phrase. I think it was in the 90s, or possibly late 80s.
"You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive" having faced fires before and now having a wife and young kids in a fire prone area this line gives me chills
It was the “it is too late to leave. The extreme heat is likely to kill you long before the fire reaches you.” that chilled my blood. I dont even live anywhere near Australia
1:18 "You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately. It is too late to leave." I'm not Australian, I'm from a very far away place. But if I were in that situation, I would have already died of panic.
@@NaderAmmarwe hear it every year and it still gives me chills, my 5 year old understands these warnings now. It's very true though, one black Saturday survivor tried to get his family to safety and he found his wife and one of his kids dead in the open before the flames hit
@@lukethiele3197It’s not the fire itself, it’s the thick smoke filled with chemicals, mixed with the extreme radiant heat. Many people who passed away in Black Saturday were found whole, not a scratch or a burn mark, they just suffocated and succumbed to the radiant heat. It’s an absolute killer.
"You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately. It is too late to leave." I'm so glad I live in a place where the fires didn't really touch
“The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately.” *"IT IS TOO LATE TO LEAVE."* If I’m gonna be honest, yeah, this genuinely sounds like a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation and honestly I can’t imagine how bad this really was
I'm in the States and had to Google Flour Bag---turns out that it is a really pretty place. I felt guilty making fun of the name, because it looks so much like where our Chatfield Hollow is in Connecticut. Horrible fires....heartbreaking.
Fun fact, I heard multiple of these warnings while desperately driving home from Queensland to my farm in Victoria to defend it, every time I heard the warning I kept calm and followed direction, and I got sh!t done. Now that I’m listening to it without an urgency to act, I feel like my heart is going to explode and I can’t catch my breath, my hands are buzzing and I had to go and forcibly hug my cat (she spent the whole crisis once I got home locked in my bathroom with her carrier having regular evac drills, where I’d jog in with treats saying TIME TO GO and chucking treats into the carrier, she’s still good at it). No soul left undefended, ever.
I know from experience how scary this alert sound is. Speeding down the road in our fire truck we tuned to the radio, all we heard as everybody was moving out of the area was this tone as we were driving through, it gives the sense of we might not be coming home.
I remember being in the pool with my friends and then feeling ash falling on us. I live in an area that thankfully wasn’t touched significantly by this, but seeing the smoke and the destruction every day was horrific.
That's so scary. Where I was wasn't affected much by the fires either, but there was huge amounts of smoke, the skies were all yellow and orange and my house had really bad ventilation so even inside we could smell smoke strongly.
Not necessarily. The government issues that message so people aren’t taking to the roads, which has been a major cause of deaths in the past during bushfires, many of which would have survived if they hadn’t done so. It’s not necessarily a death sentence, if anything it could save lives. Still sends chills down your spine though…
@@jnthepassenger347 Not just fires, floods too. How many times have we heard 'It's too late to leave' and a bunch of people *STILL* try to drive through flood waters and either get stranded or swept away to their deaths?
We hear that in Australia a lot.. gives me chills every time. Also common to hear in the same warning "you are in danger " and "the extreme heat will kill you well before the flames reach you". Even my 5 year old knows these warnings
That was because some people were idiots and didn't leave when they were told too, so they had to get war ships or something to get these people to evacuate. And some of them still wouldn't. I still can't believe how dumb those people were.
I live down in Termeil on the South coast and I can confirm this happened. It was terrifying. I can remember seeing the flames surround my house, we were lucky to survive. But down in Batemans bay where my nephew lives. They had to run down to the beach and just stand in the water. It was a horrific time
This is what they intend. If you hear a noise like this and you're in the next room, you'll think "Hmm, what's that noise coming from the TV?", and then go to check.
I’m an Australian and in 2020 - 2021 there was a big bushfire between Warrnambool and Ballarat. I drove through that area after the fire, it was horrifying, everything and every house was burnt. Every tree every blade off grass.
*Some goverment office in Australia* The boss: Okay, any suggestions for the new alarm sound? The new guy: hey have you guys ever played metroid fusion
I'm so glad this is over, it was darn horrifying, even though I wasn't in the effected area I still had the fire app and it was sometimes... kinda concerning where the fire was. It wasn't at me, but it was not too far away, they were mostly not bad fires but it still scared me knowing that I was somewhat surrounded with fires from any angle ready to come near me at any time.
God, this reminds me of when I lived in Wodonga, back in like 2003 I think. It's terrifying to be a kid, and hear the warnings, see the damage on tv, and then to see embers and burning leaves falling from the sky into your backyard. One night the flames were getting close, I don't know how close, so my dad took me, my bro, and our cats to pick up mum from work. They argued in the car about whether they should leave, or stay home. I live up north now, where the biggest danger is cyclones. But bushfires will always scare me in a different way.
as an Australian, i can only imagine how many people must have heard similar alerts like this one during the bushfires last year thankfully I live an area that wasn't really hit by the fires but we got a lot of smoke still I hope fires that bad never happen again but unfortunately I think they will and they might even be worse
some in california are really bad. we had one hit us close by like a year and a half ago. it got really bad but we really didn't get much but smoke where i lived. thankfully emergency services got it under control and put it out in a week or 2.
I was on the north coast just after my Grandpa died as he lived in Taree. The bushfires got 10 km from their house. I was terrified, We got a warning from 0444 444 444 that Possum Brush was on fire
This is a top quality alert. It conveyed a lot of useful advice in an efficient manner. It was specific and clear. It emphasized the severity of the issue without being hysterical.
i remember hearing this live for the first time. You instantly get that lump in your throat feeling, someone out there is in imminent danger and that situation is there reality.
*You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive.* And *It is too late to leave, you must take shelter before the fire arrives.* Are the most unsettling things I’ve ever heard in any broadcast. So glad I don’t live in an area where wildfires like this are common.
This was so scary, and boy did we have so many fire drills at school after this- the schools fire alarm is cinched into my mind. I still have the fires near me app, that thing was my best friend.
I live in Australia but I didn't hear this because I'm in a safe area, this still scared me so much because of how crazy it was, shame on the guy(s) who caused this mess. 🤬🖕
I remember seeing a huge black cloud of smoke from a Virgin Australia flight. Imagine having lunch with your cobbers and in a couple of seconds your house is engulfed in flames.
I was at my nan and pops house and the smoke was so extreme. You could smell it inside the house but for some reason I didn't care. I remember I think they were concerned. I was just pissed off that we couldn't go outside lmao.
I was looking around the area on top of my slide once and after a while, a huge cloud of dark black smoke appeared about northwest and it kept getting bigger and bigger. Thankfully the CFA handled it. Thank you, you legends
I remember I lived in the inner suburbs at the time, and at the time it was extremely hot and smelled like smoke outside. It was Terrifying, even though I didn’t live very close to the area affected by the fire. I am surprised it’s already been 2 years since this fire. It feels as if it was yesterday.
1:12 God. I never thought something said in that monotonous tone would strike such an awful feeling in me. I paused, started it again, and the longer I listen the worse it gets. It becomes so visceral so quickly and suddenly you realize some of your neighbors, or yourself, are about to be part of the next tragic news segment.
Same i am really scared as i live in Melbourne surrounded by all citys with fires, it is 38 degrees today. I am praying for your friends life, pets, house and more. Be safe
Terrifying to hear, but some really important advice. I don’t live in a bushfire area and had no idea about what to do in one. Good to hear that emergency systems in Australia are so competent and well-organised.
I remember watching Hotseat in January on Free TV and an emergency alert without the tone came up warning people that there was no chance of escape in another suburb and that they should await rescue.
I'll never forget this, I lived at the time down in Nairne in the Adelaide Hills and the Cudlee Creek bushfire was north of us. By the time we decided to get the fuck out there was ash raining down on the town and it was extremely hot. As I watched the CFS map in the car and at the house we were driving to, the fire swung back north-east about 6 and a half kilometres away from our town, thank god... The towns the fire burned through were devestated, they are such resilient people.
I've heard about this. I felt really bad for all the people and animals. 😢 And I thought the wildfires in California were bad, but in my honest opinion, this was even worse.
I was in Costa Mesa during the California fires and Casino, NSW during the Australian ones. The Australian bushfires were absolutely terrifying in comparison.
"This Emergency Warning is being issued for Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flourbag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, Mayford, Nelse, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Shanahan, Shannonvale, Swifts Creek, Tongio, Wentworth, Wongungarra." Like I managed to catch that without looking up this exact warning transcript 💀
yes, us Australians have places named *dinner plain, fools creek and flourbag* - spelt & pronounced exactly like that lol there's also a place in Queensland named Texas
checked google & google maps, looking up "flourbag" on google Maps gives you a place called "flourbag creek" located in "dinner plain Victoria", spelled like that. where did you get flouhag from? just curious. "flouhag" gives you no results
@@vesnabernjak-ord8674 searching up "flouhag" into google maps gives you no results. however, searching "flourbag" gives you a place in "dinner plain" located in Victoria. also searching "flouhag" into google gives you no results either. if it's spelt like "flouhag" wouldn't it show in search results? where did you get "flouhag" from? just curious.
This is one of the most disturbing emergency alerts from Australia. I didn’t hear this one firsthand because I was in a safe area but Jesus Christ the words “it’s too late to leave” and “the extreme heat will kill you before the flames do” would be so jarring to hear.
That must have been intense. I take the XPT from Canberra to Sydney regularly, even this year and later last year you can still see some destruction the fires caused. Do you have a story?
I think most countries that still have AM transmissions are like this apart from the US. It’s so you can get more frequencies throughout the band, I think it’s max 223 with 10kHz spacing vs 248 with 9kHz. I work at 2QN, which is part of the same group as 3NE, the station heard here. Before 1975, we were on 1520 at 2QN and 3NE was on 1560, but after that, Australia implemented 9kHz spacing and 2QN moved to 1521 and 3NE moved to 1566.
Today I learnt that my old high school uses the Australian EAS alarm as a part of their lockdown and fire alarm system as they both sound identical. If you're wondering, the school itself is in Australia.
bushfires mainly happen in summer if you are inside and want to escape do not take your car most roads will be closed and most deaths are caused by driving in fires smoke will make it difficult to see
As An Australian Fires are normal Here But Rip the named cities: Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie (North), Bandara, Dago, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flower bag, Glen Valley, Glen Will, Hinnomunjie, hotham heights, Mayford, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Swiss Creek, Wentworth.
For what it's worth, "it is too late to leave" is common language for anything at our top "Emergency Warning" status - it is quite literally a "evacuation is too late" message. We don't use it just for bushfires, it has been used for floods when the evacuation time has passed. We have three levels of warning, with the middle "Watch and Act" being the one that says "you should very much consider leaving now" before it gets to... well, the above. And in the case of bushfires... well, the fact that our highest fire danger level is termed "Catastrophic" (or originally "Code Red" in Victoria, where this was) is a pointer to try and get people to evacuate very early, well before something like this happened. Still hecking scary to hear regardless... and it's reassuring to have had it played out on commercial radio too, when the usual direction is to tune to the local ABC... We learned a lot from 2009 (and indeed in 2019/20) about how rubbish and piecemeal our emergency management messaging was for things other than cyclones, and it's still getting there...
Fascinating! Are you all trained in how to do the bulletin if you happen to be on air at the time? I've read a lot of accounts of how the ABC do things, including their submissions to the Black Saturday hearings. I'm a broadcast nerd so it's interesting to see how the networks are linked etc.
@ We are indeed! Everyone who is on air is trained and briefed on how the warnings work and what we’re supposed to say. There’s the three tiers of warning, Advice, Watch and Act, and Emergency Warning. Watch and Act & Emergency Warning messages are mandatory, however Advice messages are at the discretion of the broadcaster and at both 2QN and my current workplace Power FM/5MU we rarely broadcast these. Once we receive the warning, we’ve got about 10 minutes to get it on air. So, we’ve got station imaging to play, plus the SEWS if required. Then, we are to say the warning message out verbatim. For Watch and Act messages, it is every 30 minutes, and for Emergency Warnings it is every 15 minutes, with the SEWS played every hour if it’s required. The lady in this broadcast absolutely nailed it. Remained calm, professional but very firm and read out exactly what she was told to. This is a great example of what we do. I’d like to read some of those, as I’ve noted there’s not a whole lot of coverage on ABC Wimmera 594 about the fires in the Grampians… 3WM 1089 is doing it properly but not the ABC.
@@MarkPentlerI’ve replied to you but I think it was automatically removed for being too long… the short answer is yes, everyone that is on air is required to be trained and know what to do if a Watch and Act or Emergency Warning message comes through.
I remember when the bush fires were getting worse in 2020, my family would put on the tv watching ABC NEWS 24/7, everything was turning red playing that EAS. It wasnt just me that experienced this, my friends from different areas were also seeing the same thing. I legit thought that was the end but at least the government cared enough to protect it...
Our one here in Canada is terrying and i have heard it for active shooters missing children and jail escapees. and my province is the one that has the mass shooting (Nova Scotia)
"This emergency warning is being issued for Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flowhag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, ??????, ????, Omeo, Omeo Valley, ?????, ?????, Swifts Creek, Tongio, ????, Wongungarra." That's a lot of places at towns.
" You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately, it is too late to leave" ... nightmare levels of horrifying
“It is too late to leave.”
That is when the warning went from bad to horrifying
I know right? It’s as scary when in 07 the meteorologists said “if your in Greenberg your times up you need to be in your Tornado safe spot right now.”
I had to deal with this one time
We had this warning last year
@@HGCUPCAKES dang I’ve never been in a bushfire warning but I bet it’s scary like a Tornado warning. (I’ve been in several of those sadly) being from the southern USA
Bushfires suck
welcome to australia, where the the second rank on the bushfire charts is *high.*
Ya'll were funny until I realized that you were saying the truth omg
@Kali Drake starting to think the outback wasn't always a desert
As well as some AUSSIE accents!
I live in Australia LOLLLL
So scary I wished the animals and people who lost their lives DIDNT lose their lives at all!
If people are wondering, the Australian emergency alert sound is designed to feel fear inducing and unnatural regardless of language background. It's fast, loud, has an ascending tone and cannot be confused with anything but danger. If you have a bad feeling of impending doom after hearing it, then it worked.
It originally came from a particular TV station's cyclone warning..."title card", for lack of knowing a better phrase. I think it was in the 90s, or possibly late 80s.
As an American, to me it just sounds like an alarm in a cartoon
it sounds like a slot machine
@@duncanadelaide4054 like ours is any good 💀
@@duncanadelaide4054 It reminds me the boss warnings you get in some Shmups (i.e. Darius, Thunder Force, Ikaruga).
I live in New Zealand. The skies turned dark and orange and it was horrifying thinking of the terror happening to our neighbours
@RetroBoy! was it for covid?
I’m in Aus and don’t even remember that, was it really that bad?
@@xgormo9805 yes, sky got bright red for a while where I live
As a kiwi I can also confirm the skies went red!
@@xgormo9805 down in SA skies went orange and smoke covered the city
I remember this warning. Made me so sad when it said you should bring your pets inside cause you think of all the animals that were going to die.
Yea it sounds sad :(
"You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive" having faced fires before and now having a wife and young kids in a fire prone area this line gives me chills
It was the “it is too late to leave. The extreme heat is likely to kill you long before the fire reaches you.” that chilled my blood. I dont even live anywhere near Australia
1:18 "You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately. It is too late to leave." I'm not Australian, I'm from a very far away place. But if I were in that situation, I would have already died of panic.
I'm filipino but the video still scared me
That line and "The extreme heat is likely to kill you well before the flames reach you." send chills down my spine
@@NaderAmmarwe hear it every year and it still gives me chills, my 5 year old understands these warnings now.
It's very true though, one black Saturday survivor tried to get his family to safety and he found his wife and one of his kids dead in the open before the flames hit
@@lukethiele3197 oh man, these bushfires are just something else I wouldn't even know what to do
@@lukethiele3197It’s not the fire itself, it’s the thick smoke filled with chemicals, mixed with the extreme radiant heat.
Many people who passed away in Black Saturday were found whole, not a scratch or a burn mark, they just suffocated and succumbed to the radiant heat. It’s an absolute killer.
"You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately.
It is too late to leave."
I'm so glad I live in a place where the fires didn't really touch
Same, I never saw a spec of fire throughout the entire thing, but the app made me scared lol
such a scary thing to hear..
me too
I’m glad that I live in the part of the USA where it isn’t too hot
@@sillyhellian8079 Alaska lol
“The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately.”
*"IT IS TOO LATE TO LEAVE."*
If I’m gonna be honest, yeah, this genuinely sounds like a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation and honestly I can’t imagine how bad this really was
The reason these warnings have to be so direct is just that, people refuse to acknowledge that there world can turn to shit in a matter of minutes.
@@troynewell2316 exactly! everytime theres bushfires people always underestimate them 😑
0:20 - Flour Bag - As an Aussie I just cant deal.
Edit: Did a search for Omeo and Dinner Plain and see that there is a suburb called "Smoko".
I'm in the States and had to Google Flour Bag---turns out that it is a really pretty place. I felt guilty making fun of the name, because it looks so much like where our Chatfield Hollow is in Connecticut. Horrible fires....heartbreaking.
Smoko rhymes with Scomo
I thought I heard that lmao made me giggle
SMOKO
smoko is break
Fun fact, I heard multiple of these warnings while desperately driving home from Queensland to my farm in Victoria to defend it, every time I heard the warning I kept calm and followed direction, and I got sh!t done. Now that I’m listening to it without an urgency to act, I feel like my heart is going to explode and I can’t catch my breath, my hands are buzzing and I had to go and forcibly hug my cat (she spent the whole crisis once I got home locked in my bathroom with her carrier having regular evac drills, where I’d jog in with treats saying TIME TO GO and chucking treats into the carrier, she’s still good at it). No soul left undefended, ever.
“The heat is likely to kill you before the flames do”
Welcome to Australia..
FRR
BRUH
I know from experience how scary this alert sound is.
Speeding down the road in our fire truck we tuned to the radio, all we heard as everybody was moving out of the area was this tone as we were driving through, it gives the sense of we might not be coming home.
I remember being in the pool with my friends and then feeling ash falling on us. I live in an area that thankfully wasn’t touched significantly by this, but seeing the smoke and the destruction every day was horrific.
I was at my nan and pops house and the smoke was so extreme. You could smell it and some of it got into the house.
That's so scary. Where I was wasn't affected much by the fires either, but there was huge amounts of smoke, the skies were all yellow and orange and my house had really bad ventilation so even inside we could smell smoke strongly.
As an Australian, “it is too late to leave” is more or less a death sentence unless you are already WELL prepared
It’s too bad there’s a lot of fires, your country looks really beautiful and the fires ruin it!
Not necessarily. The government issues that message so people aren’t taking to the roads, which has been a major cause of deaths in the past during bushfires, many of which would have survived if they hadn’t done so.
It’s not necessarily a death sentence, if anything it could save lives. Still sends chills down your spine though…
@@jnthepassenger347 Not just fires, floods too. How many times have we heard 'It's too late to leave' and a bunch of people *STILL* try to drive through flood waters and either get stranded or swept away to their deaths?
This gave me so many memories of all the alerts. There would be one like every 10 minutes where I lived...
Which state? I wouldn’t be able to handle that every 10 minutes
@@nexygamer6409 victoria
@@midnightfrosting im in victoria its a nightmare-
@@K_240YT_ALT ikr- it was hell and people dont talk about our state much
Yes omg it was so scary
I wasn’t disturbed until… *”its to late to leave”* but ngl I just had a nightmare about this.
LOL it reminds me of the skyfire event when slone says "I won't bring you home" lol on fortnite
We hear that in Australia a lot.. gives me chills every time. Also common to hear in the same warning "you are in danger " and "the extreme heat will kill you well before the flames reach you". Even my 5 year old knows these warnings
@@lukethiele3197 alarm sound even More like hell is comsuming africa now that You said that
Us Australians literally had to be rescued from boats in the ocean, I'm not from Vic or NSW but I remember seeing it on the news, scary
I live in Adelaide and I was staying near my aunts and we had to go to a beach but they never told me why
That was because some people were idiots and didn't leave when they were told too, so they had to get war ships or something to get these people to evacuate. And some of them still wouldn't. I still can't believe how dumb those people were.
I live down in Termeil on the South coast and I can confirm this happened. It was terrifying. I can remember seeing the flames surround my house, we were lucky to survive. But down in Batemans bay where my nephew lives. They had to run down to the beach and just stand in the water. It was a horrific time
Mallacoota was cut off from the rest of the country so the navy and army evacuated them on warships
"It's too late to leave"
If I was in the car: yeah, we're fucked
If you are in Australia in the National emergency warning siren test day, you would be more F***ed.
Yeah he would be fucked
I gotta say the Australian emergency broadcast alarm sounds weird
It's better than the USA one...
I even prefer the Alberta one in Canad than the USA one here in Denver Colorado.
Oy I hate that noise@!
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Space invaders
@@TrentonMatthews b
This is what they intend. If you hear a noise like this and you're in the next room, you'll think "Hmm, what's that noise coming from the TV?", and then go to check.
To be honest we all searched this up from daily dose of internet
I’m an Australian and in 2020 - 2021 there was a big bushfire between Warrnambool and Ballarat. I drove through that area after the fire, it was horrifying, everything and every house was burnt. Every tree every blade off grass.
*Some goverment office in Australia*
The boss: Okay, any suggestions for the new alarm sound?
The new guy: hey have you guys ever played metroid fusion
Me: That alarm sound is too scary! Change it please!
@@davidlurhfan2005 The Final Minutes: *no.*
I'm so glad this is over, it was darn horrifying, even though I wasn't in the effected area I still had the fire app and it was sometimes... kinda concerning where the fire was. It wasn't at me, but it was not too far away, they were mostly not bad fires but it still scared me knowing that I was somewhat surrounded with fires from any angle ready to come near me at any time.
God, this reminds me of when I lived in Wodonga, back in like 2003 I think. It's terrifying to be a kid, and hear the warnings, see the damage on tv, and then to see embers and burning leaves falling from the sky into your backyard. One night the flames were getting close, I don't know how close, so my dad took me, my bro, and our cats to pick up mum from work. They argued in the car about whether they should leave, or stay home.
I live up north now, where the biggest danger is cyclones. But bushfires will always scare me in a different way.
the smoke made my asthma flare up, was the sickest ive ever been other than the time i got severe sinusitis
Same!
Oh fuck, I hated it. Luckily, Tasmania didn’t have too many where I was.
I heard this while I was in bega at the end of 2019. The noise brings me back bad memories
The amount of areas that bushfire is covering is *A LOT*
Yeah, the entirety of Australia was on fire
and to think Black Saturday was even bigger...
as an Australian, i can only imagine how many people must have heard similar alerts like this one during the bushfires last year thankfully I live an area that wasn't really hit by the fires but we got a lot of smoke still I hope fires that bad never happen again but unfortunately I think they will and they might even be worse
It was like that yeah good thing the fire got only 40km away
some in california are really bad. we had one hit us close by like a year and a half ago. it got really bad but we really didn't get much but smoke where i lived. thankfully emergency services got it under control and put it out in a week or 2.
2 months later Covid hit. I still remembered Melbourne was choked by the smoke from these fires.
Yeah I remember too, whenever I went outside it smelt of ash and smoke, and what made it worse was that the weather was as hot as hell
Yeah that was crazy
To anyone affected by these bushfires, I am so sorry. I send all my condolences if you lost a loved one.
I had also an emergency broadcast on my phone while at the beach in the South Coast. The it suggested to evacuate North up the Coast.
I was on the north coast just after my Grandpa died as he lived in Taree. The bushfires got 10 km from their house. I was terrified, We got a warning from 0444 444 444 that Possum Brush was on fire
Woah that's extreme! I hope you're ok. I'm so sorry for your Grandfather's passing.
This is a top quality alert. It conveyed a lot of useful advice in an efficient manner. It was specific and clear. It emphasized the severity of the issue without being hysterical.
i remember hearing this live for the first time. You instantly get that lump in your throat feeling, someone out there is in imminent danger and that situation is there reality.
*You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive.* And *It is too late to leave, you must take shelter before the fire arrives.* Are the most unsettling things I’ve ever heard in any broadcast. So glad I don’t live in an area where wildfires like this are common.
This was so scary, and boy did we have so many fire drills at school after this- the schools fire alarm is cinched into my mind. I still have the fires near me app, that thing was my best friend.
i remeber this, i live in australia so it scared the shit out of me
Wait till you hear the NZ Civil Defence warning. Rank: 15/10
I live in Australia but I didn't hear this because I'm in a safe area, this still scared me so much because of how crazy it was, shame on the guy(s) who caused this mess. 🤬🖕
Yeah I felt bad for you guys when I herd about the fire (I live in the us)
I was In a pretty unsafe place. Luckily, barely any bushfires happened anywhere near where I live. I love you, Tasmania!
I remember seeing a huge black cloud of smoke from a Virgin Australia flight. Imagine having lunch with your cobbers and in a couple of seconds your house is engulfed in flames.
I was at my nan and pops house and the smoke was so extreme. You could smell it inside the house but for some reason I didn't care. I remember I think they were concerned. I was just pissed off that we couldn't go outside lmao.
@@midnightfrosting I would be too
@@Hector9030 lmao
Fun fact: this is the alarm from the cyclone warning in 1990.
And they use the one from 1990 except its pitch is a little bit shifted
bro as a person in victoria, i’m so glad my area wasn’t affected by this bushfire, because this is possibly the scariest alert i’ve ever heard.
Same, my area was away from the fires.
I was looking around the area on top of my slide once and after a while, a huge cloud of dark black smoke appeared about northwest and it kept getting bigger and bigger. Thankfully the CFA handled it. Thank you, you legends
I remember I lived in the inner suburbs at the time, and at the time it was extremely hot and smelled like smoke outside. It was Terrifying, even though I didn’t live very close to the area affected by the fire. I am surprised it’s already been 2 years since this fire. It feels as if it was yesterday.
1:12 God. I never thought something said in that monotonous tone would strike such an awful feeling in me.
I paused, started it again, and the longer I listen the worse it gets. It becomes so visceral so quickly and suddenly you realize some of your neighbors, or yourself, are about to be part of the next tragic news segment.
I’m not entirely sure why…but this video always gets me teary eyed…it’s weird
Is it me or does that specific alarm send CHILLS down my spine
It chills me too!
I got goosebumps while listening to this and I'm American
Same and I'm French !
Not even my native language and it still impacts me nevertheless.
I heard the same thing scared the heck out of me
this is happening on a worse scale now in Victoria, my friends are in the main affected town..
Same i am really scared as i live in Melbourne surrounded by all citys with fires, it is 38 degrees today.
I am praying for your friends life, pets, house and more.
Be safe
Terrifying to hear, but some really important advice. I don’t live in a bushfire area and had no idea about what to do in one. Good to hear that emergency systems in Australia are so competent and well-organised.
Wow, I was driving from Sydney to Melbourne in January 2020 and I remember these radio broadcasts
I remember watching Hotseat in January on Free TV and an emergency alert without the tone came up warning people that there was no chance of escape in another suburb and that they should await rescue.
I was driving to bendigo in Victoria, i looked outside and i saw a bunch of smoke coming from the Grampians, luckily it was far away
THIS GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS
I'll never forget this, I lived at the time down in Nairne in the Adelaide Hills and the Cudlee Creek bushfire was north of us. By the time we decided to get the fuck out there was ash raining down on the town and it was extremely hot. As I watched the CFS map in the car and at the house we were driving to, the fire swung back north-east about 6 and a half kilometres away from our town, thank god...
The towns the fire burned through were devestated, they are such resilient people.
as a citizen of the United States and you being in Australia i have 3 words for you im really sorry
Drove up to QLD around this time, went inland because of the fires but I could see smoke miles away. Was incredibly hot that year.
I've heard about this. I felt really bad for all the people and animals. 😢
And I thought the wildfires in California were bad, but in my honest opinion, this was even worse.
I was in Costa Mesa during the California fires and Casino, NSW during the Australian ones. The Australian bushfires were absolutely terrifying in comparison.
You see, the thing is, Australia had hundreds in 2017-2021
"This Emergency Warning is being issued for Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flourbag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, Mayford, Nelse, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Shanahan, Shannonvale, Swifts Creek, Tongio, Wentworth, Wongungarra."
Like I managed to catch that without looking up this exact warning transcript 💀
i remember the fires and the smoke it was terrible i was in perth i could see the sky turn pink
I was here when this happened when I heard that "its to late to leave" I was balling my eyes out
yes, us Australians have places named *dinner plain, fools creek and flourbag* - spelt & pronounced exactly like that lol
there's also a place in Queensland named Texas
in victoria, we have a place called "tittybong"
You do realise they are the pronouncement when they are spelled different? Like flourbag is said that way but it’s spelt flouhag.
@@vesnabernjak-ord8674looking up "flouhag" in Google Maps gives you no results.
checked google & google maps, looking up "flourbag" on google Maps gives you a place called "flourbag creek" located in "dinner plain Victoria", spelled like that. where did you get flouhag from? just curious. "flouhag" gives you no results
@@vesnabernjak-ord8674
searching up "flouhag" into google maps gives you no results. however, searching "flourbag" gives you a place in "dinner plain" located in Victoria. also searching "flouhag" into google gives you no results either. if it's spelt like "flouhag" wouldn't it show in search results? where did you get "flouhag" from? just curious.
Towns affected (complete:)
Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flowhag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, Mayford?, Nelse, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Shanahan, Shannonvale, Swifts Creek, Tongio, Wenworth, Wongungarra.
People saying "It is too late to leave" was the scary shit, "The extreme heat will kill you well before the fire reaches you" gave me chills
This is one of the most disturbing emergency alerts from Australia. I didn’t hear this one firsthand because I was in a safe area but Jesus Christ the words “it’s too late to leave” and “the extreme heat will kill you before the flames do” would be so jarring to hear.
Bushfires reach 1000 degrees Celsius.
I was on the XPT train to Sydney this day
That must have been intense. I take the XPT from Canberra to Sydney regularly, even this year and later last year you can still see some destruction the fires caused. Do you have a story?
I live in the south of Victoria (australia)
And the BUNYIP bushfires of 2019, did get close to me, if you have ever heard of this.
But this is scary.
The frequency allocation on AM in Australia is interesting.
yes 9khz spacing between frequencies (all frequencies are multiples of 9), only North and South America use 10khz (frequencies all end in 0)
Hm true, thanks for the info!
I think most countries that still have AM transmissions are like this apart from the US.
It’s so you can get more frequencies throughout the band, I think it’s max 223 with 10kHz spacing vs 248 with 9kHz.
I work at 2QN, which is part of the same group as 3NE, the station heard here. Before 1975, we were on 1520 at 2QN and 3NE was on 1560, but after that, Australia implemented 9kHz spacing and 2QN moved to 1521 and 3NE moved to 1566.
Today I learnt that my old high school uses the Australian EAS alarm as a part of their lockdown and fire alarm system as they both sound identical. If you're wondering, the school itself is in Australia.
I was in nsw when this was happening, I had a friend come over to my house so we could play wii and it was 40 degrees outside. Glad we were safe
I remember I saw fire smoke coming from a house and my mom saw it, I’m scared whether it’s gonna spread around our area because it’s a bit near
I can imagine someone making a beat with the alarm and go off about how badly we've done the Earth honestly
As an Australian, when it comes to being a koala, there’s no surviving that giant fire. Unless there’s a cool dude helping you out
I would shit myself if I heard "it is too late to leave" it got so terrifying after that
My family moved to NZ after the 09' fires when we were living in Bendigo.
Why didn’t the South coast have this alarm for the currowan fire the one that destroyed lake conjola. I will never understand that
This brings back horrible memories tho. Actually about to cry but :/
bushfires mainly happen in summer if you are inside and want to escape do not take your car most roads will be closed and most deaths are caused by driving in fires smoke will make it difficult to see
When I was a kid the emergency sound was played on the radio from time to time to let us know….. it terrified me every time I heard it
As An Australian Fires are normal Here But Rip the named cities: Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie (North), Bandara, Dago, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flower bag, Glen Valley, Glen Will, Hinnomunjie, hotham heights, Mayford, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Swiss Creek, Wentworth.
You kinda forgot some of them
For what it's worth, "it is too late to leave" is common language for anything at our top "Emergency Warning" status - it is quite literally a "evacuation is too late" message. We don't use it just for bushfires, it has been used for floods when the evacuation time has passed.
We have three levels of warning, with the middle "Watch and Act" being the one that says "you should very much consider leaving now" before it gets to... well, the above.
And in the case of bushfires... well, the fact that our highest fire danger level is termed "Catastrophic" (or originally "Code Red" in Victoria, where this was) is a pointer to try and get people to evacuate very early, well before something like this happened.
Still hecking scary to hear regardless... and it's reassuring to have had it played out on commercial radio too, when the usual direction is to tune to the local ABC...
We learned a lot from 2009 (and indeed in 2019/20) about how rubbish and piecemeal our emergency management messaging was for things other than cyclones, and it's still getting there...
The one person who slept through all of that ☠️
Gosh, watching this in 2023 and how frighting this was… and then a couple of months after that.
I’m an announcer on 3NE’s sister station, 2QN.
I fear the day I hear our journalist, or god forbid, I have to deliver a message like this.
Fascinating! Are you all trained in how to do the bulletin if you happen to be on air at the time?
I've read a lot of accounts of how the ABC do things, including their submissions to the Black Saturday hearings. I'm a broadcast nerd so it's interesting to see how the networks are linked etc.
@ We are indeed! Everyone who is on air is trained and briefed on how the warnings work and what we’re supposed to say. There’s the three tiers of warning, Advice, Watch and Act, and Emergency Warning. Watch and Act & Emergency Warning messages are mandatory, however Advice messages are at the discretion of the broadcaster and at both 2QN and my current workplace Power FM/5MU we rarely broadcast these.
Once we receive the warning, we’ve got about 10 minutes to get it on air. So, we’ve got station imaging to play, plus the SEWS if required. Then, we are to say the warning message out verbatim. For Watch and Act messages, it is every 30 minutes, and for Emergency Warnings it is every 15 minutes, with the SEWS played every hour if it’s required.
The lady in this broadcast absolutely nailed it. Remained calm, professional but very firm and read out exactly what she was told to. This is a great example of what we do.
I’d like to read some of those, as I’ve noted there’s not a whole lot of coverage on ABC Wimmera 594 about the fires in the Grampians… 3WM 1089 is doing it properly but not the ABC.
@@MarkPentlerI’ve replied to you but I think it was automatically removed for being too long… the short answer is yes, everyone that is on air is required to be trained and know what to do if a Watch and Act or Emergency Warning message comes through.
God that advice is terrifying
1:18 sends chills down the spine
I remember when the bush fires were getting worse in 2020, my family would put on the tv watching ABC NEWS 24/7, everything was turning red playing that EAS. It wasnt just me that experienced this, my friends from different areas were also seeing the same thing. I legit thought that was the end but at least the government cared enough to protect it...
Anglers rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flour bag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, ?, Nelse, Omeo, Omeo Valley, Shanahan, Shannonvale, Swifts Creek, Tongio, Wenworth, Wongungarra
I was in Victoria when it first happened in 2019 and then in 2020 I was in Tasmania it had some fires but not as much
I like how the guy is so calm in the car driving away from the fire
I was a few towns away, but my town was almost impossible to see 5 feet away from you
Our one here in Canada is terrying and i have heard it for active shooters missing children and jail escapees. and my province is the one that has the mass shooting (Nova Scotia)
All this places were near me… this was terrifying
"This emergency warning is being issued for Anglers Rest, Benambra, Bingo Munjie, Bingo Munjie North, Bundara, Cassilis, Cobungra, Dargo, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Flowhag, Glen Valley, Glen Wills, Hinnomunjie, Hotham Heights, ??????, ????, Omeo, Omeo Valley, ?????, ?????, Swifts Creek, Tongio, ????, Wongungarra." That's a lot of places at towns.
Flowhag
@@koiyune thanks
I was really scared for all the animals and people in Australia thank god the bushfires have calmed down now
" You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately, it is too late to leave"
... nightmare levels of horrifying
“The extreme heat is likely to kill you well before the flame reach you”.😬
I live in the city now but i used to live in north east vic and i remember that a hill near my home had a massive fire on it and it was fucking scary
"It is too late to leave"
Oh im f**ked up.
Can someone explain why u should cover yourself with wool?
because wool is significantly better at insulation than synthetic fabrics. the heat of the fire will likely kill you, even if the flames don't first.
@@nonchalantree6604 I see...thanks!
That, and I think it's less likely to catch on fire.
It's because when wool burns, it falls off the skin. Synthetic fibers will melt onto the skin. i'ts a basic survival thing...
And that's how they knew 2020 wouldn't be great.
I heard this on the way to falls creek with my sister and holy moly it was scary
When the emergency alert says “shelter in the ocean” you know shits crazy
Many people did exactly this, there was literally nowhere else to go
damn someone named "Norme" which rates EAS alarms was in one of these
1:24 "It is too late to leave"
It's very scary to hear, but there isn't a choice to not hear that. It's a fact unfortunately.