Brit Reacts To FLYING THROUGH AUSTRALIAS BUSH FIRES!
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Brit Reacts To FLYING THROUGH AUSTRALIAS BUSH FIRES!
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It used to be that North America and Australia could share fire bombers, but in recent years our fire seasons are overlapping.
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Some of it is arson. Most are caused by dry lightning strikes which can occur where there is a thunderstorm but no rain. Sometimes people are foolish by using a welder, driving a vehicle with a hot exhaust onto dry grass, using mower/slasher and the blade strikes a rock causing sparks, high winds cause arcing between power lines or branches are blown onto powerlines and yes, some people still light an open BBQ using charcoal or wood!
We also have exploding gum trees with oil in them, and when they get too hot....
But they are not what start the fires.@@larissahorne9991
And littering, a glass bottle or even pieces of broken glass with the sun shining through it onto tinder dry grass and leaves can start a fire. And don’t forget careless smokers throwing away a butt, although that’s rare these days with fewer smokers.
And in rare instances birds! It has been known for birds to land on high voltage wires, accidentally touch the wrong thing and burst into flames and plummet to the ground setting dry grass on fire. Rare but it has happened.
A hot northern wind helps it move a lot more quicker.
Last summer I got the message via SMS to evacuate my home as danger was imminent. I grabbed a big bottle of water, phone, purse put my cat in a carrier in the car, and took off to a shoppong centre over the nearest part of the river to escape the heat and smoke. Very soon after, the code in my area was "stay and defend", meaning it was too dangerous to try and leave. The main freeway was closed too as the fire had jumped the four lane road. Until it happens to you, you can't quite imagine how frightening it is. Luckily for me, the fire was contained and my home okay. The amazing part for me is the number of people who approached me to offer a place to shelter or a bed if I needed one overnight. Amazing community, that's Aussie spirit right there. ❤
I can relate to that, when fire was raging in the hills near where I lived the evacuation centre was almost devoid of elderly people and those with young children because locals had taken them into their homes.
Sprinkler system? Funniest thing I've heard in years!!
All of our forests are eucalyptus. It’s highly combustable. If there’s high winds and a fire there’s no stopping it. We have fire breaks and do back burns but sometimes the conditions are on the fires side. Climate change means it only gets worse year in and year out.
In California the main fire danger is our Eucalyptus trees too - imported!
It has nothing to do with "climate change" it is all about fuel reduction. (and idiot reduction)
@@jenniferharrison8915 yeah, geniuses love taking foreign flora and fauna home and ruin the biodiversity of an area/ country. Australia has many feral animals and plants brought over by the British. It’s why we have such strict bio security rules now. We don’t have rabies and some other world diseases here yet.
Those fires were over the whole country and we couldn’t open windows for 4 months. Black smoke from it went over New Zealand…….
Mostly dry lightning. Ash Wednesday in the Adelaide Hills was started by the strong winds causing the power lines to crash together and sending sparks into the bush.
That fire at Batemans Bay burnt northward for over a hundred miles and had an 80-mile fire front
To me hearing the words "It's too late to leave. You must shelter in place" are the scariest words ever.
Dude... "A sprinkler system"?
It would need to be in batches the size of the United Kingdom! From Portsmouth to Kirkwall...and that would just be ONE area...
I was going to comment on this but you have done it for me. I am wondering what a sprinkler system the size of Europe looks like. And how big the pumps would have to be and the cost?!
The majority of Australian plants have evolved to burn very easily, this happened because the Australian aboriginal people would burn an area after they had depleted the sources of food and then move to the next area. Some gumtrees seeds can't germinate unless they have been exposed to extreme heat. Because bushfires are so common one of the jobs my sister had was to track fires from a helicopter and use GPSS and topographic mapping combined with surveys of the flora to create a fire prediction program. It is over 90% accurate and is now being used by other countries. The best way to fight an Australian bushfire is to just let it burn, the fire-fighters just protect buildings while bulldozers create firebreaks and water bombing aircraft help the fire-fighters on the ground.
your statement about aboriginals contradicts itself.
My brother helped fight a massive brush fire on Long Island in NY many years ago as firefighter. The most important reason for these fires is dryness. High heat is not needed, but it can prolong the fire because the firemen must stop doing their jobs or suffer heatstroke. Lightening is the primary cause in most cases. But sometimes it could be just a cigarette which is picked up by the high winds and dropped in some dead leaves.
My sister lives in Western Australia. They had to evacuate a month or so ago. She took quick vid as they left their home. The smoke & flames were only a few streets away. I was a wreck worrying from here in Vic. Lucky, my sister, husband and pets all went back to no damage done to their home at all - thanks to the amazing firefighters, co-ordinated groups of so many others helping.
Australia is huge! It is unrealistic to put many ideas in place. And if you're in an area that's away from main cities or water bodies, there is often very little water available.I believe America is different from Australia as more of the country is built up and has more dams, lakes, and waterways ( Possibly?). The native gum trees have Eucalyptus oil in their leaves, making them highly combustible. High heat and little rainfall make for dry vegetation and whether the fire is caused by a lightning strike, accidental or arson, in combination with high winds, it becomes a deadly combination that feeds the fires and causes devastation.
to put it into context, Australia is about 97% the size of the US (excluding Alaska)
Dry lightning, a broken bottle, smoke butt or a blown truck tyre will quickly spark a fire.
Another big reason they start is from broken glass, like a magnified glass with the sun. Can reach 50 degrees out west, with dead grass and a shit load of broken glass, it only takes one the ignite and boom.
Arson
Dry lightning
Broken glass
Cigarette butts
Machinery/vehicles that have been running over dry grass.
Ive also seen a fire start from a farmer having lime out which then got some moisture into it.
...and then there is that fire starting bird that likes to go after prey escaping said fire....can't remember the name of it
Perth is suffering right now with bushfire
The sheer scale of those fires is beyond comprehension. The only real solution is preventative burning in winter and on a much larger scale. Prior to those particular fires, 10s of millions of dollars was taken out of the rural fire brigades' budgets by the Morrison government and in NSW by the Berejiklan government resulting in a large reduction in hazard reduction burns and this was the result. On a personal note I once lived in a bushfire prone area and I set my home up such that it couldn't burn down. I had a copper pipe irrigation system all over my roof and under the soffit, powered by a diesel generator and pump in a fire proof shed with water from an underground 80 000 litre tank. The pump could transfer 600 litres per minute. It was a beast. When I tested it it was like a shield of water extending a metre above the roof and all around the house. Thankfully I never needed to use it against a bushfire though I would have also loved to have seen how it performed.
Where are you getting the water for your giant sprinkler system? Don’t forget the UK fits into Australia 31.5 times.
I was in the big fires in 2019 and 4 times we got a text to evacuate, every time the roads were all cut by fire. So our choice was to walk into the ocean or wait. It was as black as night for 4 weeks and I am allergic to wood smoke. It was terrifying to see the fires coming at us and each time the wind changed direction just before they were here.
About Australia only being hot. Watch a video called Australia’s top 5 ski resorts. I learned to ski in the number one resort. We have mountains and snow in 3 States and some of the best resorts in the world. Why do you think we always medal in the outdoor ski jumping or any outdoor ski event at the Olympics?
typically lightning or arson, but can also be friction from trees rubbing together, power lines arcing out, accidental fires.
sprinklers absolutely work on a property level, but australia is far too large to have sprinklers everywhere. there are 300,000km2 of national parks (the entire uk is 200,000km2) and that's just national parks it doesn't include state forests, crown land, aboriginal land and private property that is still natural bushland.
Most fires aren't extinguished they are left to burn out. Usually, the effort is put into saving homes and other important areas. That's why the animal losses are huge. They have 737s and C-130s for water bombers many are hired from North America during the fire season. Standing at your house and watching a giant plane drop pink fire retardant about 200 metres away in front of a wall of flame is a surreal and frightening experience.
Yep big big country and we dont have large bodies of water close by often. When you fly planes over fires you cannot use big planes cos the updrafts and low visibility would cause large heavier planes to crash…and many bushfires start by heat in the eucalytus oil in the tree canopies to ignight on its own much of which is in very isolated places but soon travels to urban populated townships
Any man made fire is fairly easy to manage because they tend to be more accessable. Fires caused in remote areas by lightning are the worst. They can start in very remote areas and spread at extream speeds.
usa brings firefighting equipment to australia for our summer. australia does same for theirs. we use just about every type of fire fighting equipment there is right up to airliner size waterbombers.
you should look at the sikorsky/erickson skycranes. they all have names and are very famous. like elvis, georgia peach, the incredible hulk etc
Arson, lightning strike, backburns, farm equipment, sparks from grinders, could be anything
Its a red nightmare in fire season.
In Australia We grow up with bushfires and we learn early what to do. But sometimes its overwhelming and you feel helpless. I lost family members in bushfires. They are deadly. Fireballs that miss one house and hit another, trees that explode, dust devils that become fire twisters. Its hard to convey the sheer size of it to outsiders. Imagine a wall of fire the size of london heading your way...what do you do?
Sometimes lightning strikes, there's also a species of bird that deliberately spreads the fire. you also need some fire to burn off a lot of the old build up and refresh the landscape. the problem is their getting worse.
Sadly, there are many pyromaniacs out there, all ages, all types. Some masquerading as fire fighters and volunteers. A bit like killers returning to the scene of the crime and helping to search for someone missing.
You fight fire with fire, literally. Backburning is controlled fires done in the cooler months that reduces the fuel load of an uncontrolled bushfire, and when done regularly and right works fairly well. Until it doesn’t 🤷
Bushfires start for many reasons. Arson is certainly one. But there is also a perfect combination of drought dry undergrowth low humidity and high temperatures and a lot of the time dry lightning strikes (from electrical storms with no rain just a lot if lightning) ignite undergrowth grass or a tree and thats it. Bushfire. And fires create their own internal weather systems so winds increase pushing the fire on and cause internal fire tornados. Check the vid on 2003 Canberra fires. On top of that theres always stupid human activity such as arson, lighting an open air bbq or camp fire, welding in the open or any power tool that causes sparks, throwing a cigarette out of a car window, driving through tinder dry grass with a hot exhaust pipe. Given the disastrous fires we've had in the last few years people have become very sensitive and wary. So these days if anyone is spotted or caught being that careless it wont go well for them and legally theyre in deep doo-doo. Bushfires aint no joke. And I would hazard a guess that most if not everyone in the country has been affected one way or another by fires. Sorry Kabir but you cant just install a giant sprinkler system . Our firies cant really stop the fires at all really. And in reality its part of our ecology. The vegetation has oddly enough evolved to need fire to reproduce open seeds and survive. What the firies do is containment diversion and protection of life and property. They cant save everything and e erybody so if there arent enough resources in one area or the fire is too closeby residents are told to leave immediately or stay and take shelter and or fight. The firies will be moved on elsewhere where they can be of more use. Fires in unreachable areas are left burn out or be put out by changes in wind direction and sometimes rain. But even then the fire fields have to re checked for months to put out spot fire smouldeting logs and hotspots. You cant equate bushfire control with the fire brigade putting out a burning building with masses of fire hoses and water. Then its out and done with. Bushfires a different beast.
Our volunteer fire fighters are not paid here in Australia. Yet a lot of volunteers have died fighting these fires ! Bloody disgraceful !!
We had the Americans over here Kabir, volunteering, but they wouldn't listen to our experts. Unfortunately, they paid the ultimate price. Australian fire fighters are regarded as the best in the world - maybe do some research.
Yes, won't be instructed that's a big problem!
the pilots that do this work, have huge balls, often no visibility and thermal currents, plus the smoke can cause engines to fail.
Sadly, most bushfires are arson, more often than not, lit by a firefighter, some can be accidental (a camp fire not fully extinguished or a hazard reduction burn getting out of hand), but are rarer. Vic fire of 2010, was started by the powerlines not being cleared properly, they can't have vegetation with in a certain distance or it can cause arcing and a fire, the biggest lines can't have anything under them, that's why you see a cleared section through the vegetation, but they had lapsed on the maintaining. Lightning strikes are another cause and scarily, the fire itself can cause lightning strikes and was where the last major fire here, was so had to fight, they had new ones starting from both embers in the wind and strikes caused by the storm clouds that developed
A possible outcome is all Australians banding together to help the injured and displaced animals
They are bush fires not wild fires
Our Gum trees dont help with our bushfires. The natural oil in them doesn't help things.
throwing cigarettes out of car windows causes a lot.
Once we had an arsonist in the Adelaide Hills and it turned out to be a mother on the school run.
Eucalypts are very flammable and some bushfires are actually natural because the Australian bush is designed to burn to facilitate new growth. Aboriginal people knew this and would conduct burn offs intentionally, back before the white man took their land.
There are fires started by lowlifes, but it could be anything heat and lightning, What I don’t understand when people die because of arsonist,Why aren’t they charged with Murder, because as far as I’m concerned they know there’s a chance someone will die
a drought means there is no water it's a tinder box.
The problem is we in Australia are too good at putting out the fires. The aboriginals started many more fires to capture animals for food and usually they were already cooked because of the fire. We put out fires when they should be left to burn the undergrowth and the fire is not as intense. When a fire has double the undergrowth it is four times hotter and when it has three time the undergrowth it is nine times hotter.
Burning off undergrowth is the only way and many Aboriginals have the job in some parts of Australia in burning off and is very successful
Bush fires not wild fires mate.
ITS CALLED GEOENGINEERING & DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS!
WAKE UP!
Arson lighting strikes idiot people who do not know how to put the barbie out especially if it wood
Most of the fires are lit by arsonists
Hay mate I'm Australian, I live in Victoria were bushfirers are, I'm moving to Tasmania in few weeks, hasn't been a bushfire fir 400 years
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Hate to burst your bubble, so please look it up. Terrible fire in 1967 for example. I think nearly 70 people lost their lives in Tasmania. There have been other fires as well.
Way Too Big Bro
The greenies stopped the burn offs to lessen the leaves and buildup of rubbish
Most fires are caused by fire bugs. Years ago we had only an occasional fire but now they are every summer. I think people who live in bush areas should have an independent water supply and roof sprinkler systems installed. I know some people have done it. Might be costly but better than the alternative.
Actually incorrect according to statistics
Mostly Arson