02-09-2014, 01:59 AM
The State of Victoria is burning again, five years after Black Saturday.
Driving down Eastlink this morning the winds were hot and gusty with trees being whipped. About a third of the way down I saw a CFA strike team of one 4 x 4 and 5 -4 x 4 fire trucks rushing North with the hammer down and all lights and sirens going. All the trucks were drawn from brigades down on the Mornington Peninsula such as Somers, Bittern, Tyabb and I missed seeing the names on the other two. I suspect that they may have left the CFA Training Base at Bangholme which is right next to Eastlink and close to the Peninsula Link Freeway, so a good spot to locate a rapid response strike team.. I suspect that they were headed for the fire at Warrandyte which would be a bitch of a place to fight a fire given the steep rock terrain, narrow roads and the Yarra river winding through to complicate matters. Well we call it a river but people elsewhere might just think it was a creek. Up around Warrandyte and Templestowe you can throw or hit a tennis ball from one bank to the other and in some spots it is so shallow and rocky you could almost walk across. As a point of interest, Warrandyte was one of the first places gold was found in Victoria in the 1800's. As I arrived home tonight I could see a large smoke cloud in the distance which I think would be from the Fawkner or Mickleham fires. A cool change has moved through this afternoon so the temperature is around 25 deg. C. and hopefully the winds die down to help with putting the fires out.
Mark
Driving down Eastlink this morning the winds were hot and gusty with trees being whipped. About a third of the way down I saw a CFA strike team of one 4 x 4 and 5 -4 x 4 fire trucks rushing North with the hammer down and all lights and sirens going. All the trucks were drawn from brigades down on the Mornington Peninsula such as Somers, Bittern, Tyabb and I missed seeing the names on the other two. I suspect that they may have left the CFA Training Base at Bangholme which is right next to Eastlink and close to the Peninsula Link Freeway, so a good spot to locate a rapid response strike team.. I suspect that they were headed for the fire at Warrandyte which would be a bitch of a place to fight a fire given the steep rock terrain, narrow roads and the Yarra river winding through to complicate matters. Well we call it a river but people elsewhere might just think it was a creek. Up around Warrandyte and Templestowe you can throw or hit a tennis ball from one bank to the other and in some spots it is so shallow and rocky you could almost walk across. As a point of interest, Warrandyte was one of the first places gold was found in Victoria in the 1800's. As I arrived home tonight I could see a large smoke cloud in the distance which I think would be from the Fawkner or Mickleham fires. A cool change has moved through this afternoon so the temperature is around 25 deg. C. and hopefully the winds die down to help with putting the fires out.
Mark
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