Brushfires

[Ed Reiss]

Just heard about the brushfires in Victoria...very sad.

Ann and I will say an extra prayer in church tomorrow to keep all the firefighters safe from harm while fighting the blazes.

[munruben]

Ann and I will say an extra prayer in church tomorrow to keep all the firefighters safe from harm while fighting the blazes.

Amen to that

[ElizaLeahy]

Saw it on the news, whole towns wiped out!

And up in north queensland people are flooded for the second time in a week, people dying in flooded creeks where crocks have been seen.

I hope that everyone in the forums is safe!

[Grumpy John]

Just heard about the brushfires in Victoria...very sad.

Ann and I will say an extra prayer in church tomorrow to keep all the firefighters safe from harm while fighting the blazes.

Thank you very much for your kind thoughts Ed, I just heard on the news that so far there have been 66 deaths caused by the fires.

[echnidna]

And there are 60 fires burning in NSW as well as the Vic fires

[artme]

Yes, the fickle weather has given the wide brown land an awfful hiding.

The deaths and property destruction are horrifying.

My thoughts go out to all the families effected and to the brave and selfless firefighters, SES personel, police, counsellors and other volunteers.

[Rum Pig]

Yes good luck to all in the effected area
I have friends and family all through rural Vic so far so good

[RETIRED]

According to the news just on: 85 fatalities and 750 houses lost

[reef12]

My prayers also.

Hope all goes well.

[Grumpy John]

Monday morning, 108 dead and at least 750 homes destroyed and television journalists still ask questions like "how do you feel", "tell us what was going through your mind". Then when the victims break down and cry the camera zooms in, bastards. Just report the news and leave these people alone to grieve their loss. If these reporters really want to know how the victims feel, they should roll up their sleeves and help clean up after the fires, they might then really appreciate what the victims of these fires are going through.

[RETIRED]

I am getting tired of the same images from 3 days ago.

[Stef]

I had a cousin loose her house from these fires out the back of Traralgon area, not to far from Jarrahrules house.
I hope he and his family are safe and ok.

[lubbing5cherubs]

Fire is so destructive. Breaks my heart for all those people. I think I rather the rain and the flooding then what those poor guys are going through now. Been though a house fire 3 years back and that smell haunts us all still today I know what they are going through and I agree about the reporters they really are disgusting makine people cry. Here in Townsville at least we get to breathe fresh air. We are all ok with the flooding however. The girls have only missed 1 day of school from not being to get there but today is the first day in 41 days that there is no water falling from the skies.. Whohoo!! Very pleased by that thought. Things might start to dry out a bit.
bye Toni

[oldiephred]

I never know if I should feel sorry for news reporters or mentally kick them in the weakest spot. Sometimes they appear to be from a section of society that are often kept confined in special instutions.
In any case I sincerely feel sorry for those most affected by the heat and fires even though I cannot really comprehend the degree of either. Some day I am determined to visit Aus. and I think I will love it, maybe even stay. At the present time there is a minimum of 3.5 feet of snow in my back yard and the thermometer is at -15C. When that melts the floods will be terrible.

[Ed Reiss]

Tragic loss of life. Hope the authorities find and justly punish the ones that set the fires.

GJ...your right, the "drive-by media" just don't seem to have any heart when it comes to these sort of matters....an unfortunate sign of the times we live in.