Out The Back of Kinglake West Hall…Six Months After Black Saturday

Download now or watch on posterous KinglakeWestHall.mov (6317 KB) The Hall at Kinglake West is very intact, with no sign of damage from February’s fires, sitting only a hundred metres or so from the local CFA. However, if you go out the back and look over to the left side, the trees tell an important [...]

Just Near The Kinglake Diner

The Diner itself and the shop next to it are intact, but these trees show how close things were during the February bushfires. Sent from my iPhone

Marysville A Few Months Later…

I’ve just come away from watching tonight’s ABC Four Corners program about Marysville. It was a sharp reminder that, while some of us got through February with families intact and friends safe, those in the towns worst affected weren’t quite so fortunate. For Marysville’s CFA captain, Glen Fiske, there was the double blow of watching [...]

One Last Reflection, Then Forward…

This past week saw a huge change in the bushfire situation, but not before a little moment of truth on Tuesday.  With fire weather warnings and predictions, plus the new factor of a police-initiated SMS alert the previous day, even most of the volunteers on the Twitter #bushfires hashtag were nervous. Monday night had passed [...]

The Road To Flowerdale…

The little country town of Flowerdale has held the attention of Victorians since just after Black Saturday.  North of Kinglake and Kinglake West, it had to survive the first week after the fires with no support, no CFA units, after that whole region was declared a crime scene.  To save the remaining houses, the locals [...]

Time For Relaxing…

“From a Twitter volunteer’s point-of-view, keeping a clear eye on the CFA web pages and feeds showed the firefighters were doing a fantastic job”

Side Issues Are A Pain…

During the time I’ve sat on #bushfires, #vicfires and #fireupdates and kept focused on the important information that was most needed, it’s been interesting to read the other tweets sometimes and see the various topics that crop up, some related to the fires, some not.  A few topics are ones for valid discussion and debate [...]

Distractions…

Hate groups were put on notice that they wouldn’t be tolerated, yesterday. The invective used by them seriously jeopardized the chances of getting a fair trial of the person accused of the Churchill fire. So, our authories definitely put such groups on notice that they would be up on contempt-of-court charges. Up till last night, [...]

Firebugs Are Lower Than The Kerb…

Earlier in the week, I had to keep track of the situations in two areas where members of my family were endangered by fire. I at least was glad one member of my family was safe and not threatened by the blazes. This morning, however, I heard news over the radio that my sister’s suburb [...]