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

Kinglake West Six Months After Black Saturday

Sent from my iPhone

Returning to Kinglake

My start in social media began with relaying/retweeting important information on the #bushfires and #vicfires hashtags over on Twitter and I’ve already made visits to two of the affected areas from February’s Victorian bushfires…Flowerdale and Kinglake. Tomorrow, Sunday July 12, I’ll be out at Kinglake West assisting with a community event, so I’ll be seeing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Postscript For The Day…

This evening, it was announced on relevent Twitter feeds that the fightfighters had suffered a fatality, one who died when a tree fell near Marysville. Until I check it a bit more, to my knowledge this has been the first firefighter fatality in this particular batch of fires. Our thoughts and condolences go to his [...]

A Week After Scorched Saturday

It’s been a long, tiring week. And the situation, while slightly better, is far frrom over. It takes a toll on volunteers. On Twitter’s #bushfires and #vicfires hashtags, you can see when someone who’s been helping for the whole week is physically or emotionally exhausted. But they still keep at it, putting out information or [...]