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I've come across stuff that PC World Warming BS regs have prevented firebreaks? Sad. R.C.Fire breaks are great for controlled burn-offs. These fire storms generate "floaters" which can ignite fires across kilometres. The rest, in such a case, is just people spouting silly nonsense on social media.
Who knows how easy it is these days to design a firewall - a lightweight blanket barrier that could be draped in front of the fire?Our family lost two houses in the Ash Wednesday fires. We need to think in terms of firestorms generating winds in excess of 100km/h. Giant eucalypts exuding volatile gasses and exploding into flames in mere seconds hundreds of meters before the fire front, brick walls pulverised, trees crashing to the ground. There were stories of men sucked out of the windows of firetrucks and friends and neighbours found inside their homes in their bathtubs having died of asphyxiation and smoke inhalation.
J A Graf Sorry to hear.Thank you for your kind words. Very similar story to yours. We were extremely lucky.
My Grandma's house went up in the Oakland firestorm of 1991. I've got a video that's terrifying in that it's me there, surrounded by foundations, seeing S.F. Bay, which one never could before due to all the trees, etc.
My Grandma's neighbors played the heroes and saved her - driving out through flames.
RIP.
RC
P.s., Interesting typically Aussie usage. There: bushfires; here: brushfires or wildfires.
RC