CHC Fire

[Ian Warren]

Paul .. anarchy the media can cause, it look pretty much sorted, now looking into the fact the second fire is arson , drop kicks of the world.

[emfrat]

The firies over here say about 80% of grass and bushfires are deliberately set. Don't know if that includes the roadside ones caused by dropkicks throwing lit cigarette ends out of cars, but it should.
As for water bombers, the big ones including the big chopper come to Oz on a contract basis, since the N Hemisphere fire season is opposite to ours. There may be a couple of smaller fixed-wing ones in residence around the place.

[Ian Warren]

I walk in under neath 'Elvis' at Avalon .. those Erickson water-bombers really are impressive , and in the air equally.

[Splitpin]

Good to see an RNZAF Herc off to Oz to collect some fire retardant, and whatever ...good timing, the fire is all but out and its raining

No ill will toward the Air force at all, but I agree with Mr. Brownlee (and the local fire commander) ... WTH ! 11 homes gone, a father of 2 dead .... bloody red tape, too many overpaid local government, uninformed gits with their fingers in the pie.
Just let the people who do the biz ... do it.
Now, "they" think it may have been arson, in part. If so, I hope they find the sick bastard and throw the book at him.

[Ian Warren]

Welcome to the , ..... the Hum and Haring , to much of this .. OSH crap .. rather people on site and use the, their initiative .. forgot people to use there brains except for a couple who jumped in and improvised .... hate to see the local ..well put that into a war battle front .. YOUR DEAD! , not so dis-similar.

[emfrat]

Good to see an RNZAF Herc off to Oz to collect some fire retardant, and whatever ...good timing, the fire is all but out and its raining

I'm with you Marty. Very disappointed that there was no RAAF bird delivering one of those modular tank systems, although maybe we don't have any... That said, Vic, NSW, and parts of QLD last weekend were on a 'Catastrophic Fire Danger Alert', so maybe we had to wait until that passed.
Quite regardless of that, the bureaucrats should have organised a mutual support plan, years ago. And of course they probly believe in chemtrails, too.

[Fozzer]

Zeeland and Oz-land suffering from Wildfires, whilst California is expecting this little lot!... ....>>>

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2 ... 27&em=true

The vagaries of; "Weather"!

Paul... ....!

[Ian Warren]

All this drama over a bitta weather, at least its natural, it when you get the fires that are deliberately started you have to start worrying .

[Fozzer]

...and just the opposite in previously drought-struck California....

...now they have more water than they can cope with!...>>>

http://kron4.com/2017/02/17/at-least-2- ... alifornia/

Violent rain storms hitting the Pacific West Coast

Paul...Browsing the affected areas in my Sim Cessna 150 Aerobat!....

[whitei]

Gidday,

Well what a busy week it has been down here for all the emergency services and associated teams that run in the background and don't get any recognition for what they do.

My time started with this incident around 18:00 hrs on Monday night, I live halfway between Lincoln and Prebbleton on Birches Road and saw the smoke rising out my kitchen window thinking it maybe a structure fire with the colour of the smoke I wandered down the road to take a look see what was going on about halfway down the road the pager went off and told me where it was the fire I was looking for was a bit further than I thought turned the corner into McDurys road looked to my right and went "oh dear" with a few more words that I cannot put up here, I rung the station to tell the rest of them what I saw and to chuck my gear in. Eight hours later of going up and down the hills I got relieved with the rest of the three crews from Lincoln that turned out initially. From then thru to Thursday it was pretty much home to sleep for a three to four hours, work till lunchtime to get orders ready for my deliveries the next morning (I am self employed with no employees so when I go the business shuts down effectively) then out on the fire ground for six - eight hours. Luckily we have great support from our brigade member employers and self employed people that we where able to run 6 hour shifts around the clock for the three days.

Cheers

Ian W "The Silent One"

[Ian Warren]

Well Done Ian W "The Silent One" A damn great effort on you and your teams part and the entire force ! ... That seriously deserves plus and again Again a seriously great effort !

[whitei]

I've just seen this video gives you a bit of a perspective of what we where dealing with.

https://www.facebook.com/broadcastmedia ... 391588822/


Ian

[deeknow]

Great stuff Ian, you emergency services guys are fantastic the way you all engage with these serious incidents and just get on and deal with them. Thanks for sharing the video too, give us more insight than the giggle-box at 6pm.

Sorry to the rest of you Cantabs for not chiming in earlier on the thread, hard to know what to say, so many major things impacting your lives over recent years, hard to imagine what its like to get on with life with that all going on around you. I'm sure your all looking after each other and being sensible.

Kia Kaha from the North.

[emfrat]

Great stuff Ian, you emergency services guys are fantastic the way you all engage with these serious incidents and just get on and deal with them. :

Yes, they really are a special breed. This incident happened last week:
https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/fi ... h/3143468/

[Ian Warren]

I did notice the mention of the 'fire tornado', I did get photo's here when that happen and the energy created show it was making its own weather, something the incident commander Richard McNamara could have seen from his perspective ... the column went up three times the height when the fire was what appeared to be at its worst ... that video Ian posted .. mentioned the share energy.

[Aviator 1]

Are you able to post a pic I would be interested seeing that ?

[Ian Warren]

Are you able to post a pic I would be interested seeing that ?

I'll do that first thing tomorrow morning.

[Ian Warren]

This is about an hour and fifteen minutes between 1-4, you can see were things really got hot in photo 3 & 4 , was between 20 minutes , in photo 4 the wind change also heading back almost a N/E , to off 4 you see the fire creating it own weather on the very top .. that was the fire tornado looking from Upper Riccarton.