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| rodda |
Posted on 09-02-2009 10:06
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After a heatwave with 4 forty degree days in a row last week, and then the hottest day in history, which reached 48 degrees in places with very strong winds pushing flames at 100km/h we have had the worst bushfires in our history. Many of them have been lit deliberately and even relit after volunteers and firefighters have put them out and it has been announced that the arsonists will face murder charges.
So far a few entire towns have been completely wiped out, and the death toll is at 131 although this is expected to rise further as emergency services cant actually properly inspect some of the worst areas yet, this makes it the greatest natural and probably the greatest loss of life in Australian history. This is the list of fires going as of tonight, bearing in mind that the worst is past, and this is just in the area highlighted here, i'm only a few hours away from some of them:
Statewide fire list - going, contained and controlled incidents. 10 New Fires Today Start
Date District No Incident Name Location Last Report Status Size
(Ha) Land
Status 07/02
MURRINDINDI
35
KINGLAKE COMPLEX
5Km east of Kilmore
16:22 Feb 09
Going
116400
PRIVATE PROPERTY
07/02
MURRINDINDI
37
YEA-MURRINDINDI
2km SSE Murrindindi
15:54 Feb 09
Going
93000
PRIVATE PROPERTY
07/02
ERICA
8
CHURCHILL - JEERALANG
2KM SE CHURCHILL
14:15 Feb 09
Going
33380
STATE FOREST
07/02
OVENS
39
BEECHWORTH - LIBRARY RD
8KM S BEECHWORTH
15:05 Feb 09
Going
30000
04/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
47
BUNYIP SP - BUNYIP RIDGE TRK
5km NNE Tonimbuk
14:13 Feb 09
Going
25000
NATIONAL PARK
06/02
HEYFIELD
25
DARGO - WHITE TIMBER SPUR
15KM NNW DARGO
16:22 Feb 09
Going
15000
STATE FOREST
07/02
BENDIGO
81
Redesdale - Coliban Park Road
9 kms west Redesdale
14:21 Feb 09
Going
9445
PRIVATE PROPERTY
07/02
ERICA
9
EAST TYERS THOMSON
2KM NE PARKERS CORNER
16:18 Feb 09
Going
1367
STATE FOREST
08/02
YARRAM
10
WPNP - CATHEDRAL
11KM ENE TIDAL RIVER SEALERS COVE
16:40 Feb 09
Going
88
NATIONAL PARK
07/02
NOOJEE
10
LOCH VALLEY - LEADBEATERS GULLY
10KM NW NOOJEE
18:00 Feb 09
Going
80
STATE FOREST
08/02
NOOJEE
19
LOCH VALLEY - NORMANS
11 KM N NOOJEE
13:15 Feb 09
Going
49
STATE FOREST
09/02
ERICA
14
BAW BAW NATIONAL PARK - PLATEAU
9KM SE BAW BAW ALPINE RESORT
17:25 Feb 09
Going
10
NATIONAL PARK
08/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
62
POWELLTOWN - MT MYRTALIA
4km NNW Powelltown
14:34 Feb 08
Going
5
STATE FOREST
08/02
NOOJEE
18
TOORONGO - 17KM MARK
15 KM NNE NOOJEE
13:15 Feb 09
Going
4
STATE FOREST
09/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
66
UPPER YARRA - ROAD 12
18 km NNE Baker Crk
15:44 Feb 09
Going
1
NATIONAL PARK
09/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
67
UPPER YARRA - ROAD 3
8km NE Upper Yarra Dam Office / Reserve
14:23 Feb 09
Going
1
NATIONAL PARK
09/02
UPPER MURRAY
15
KOETOWF DRY FOREST CREEK
30 KM EAST TALLANGATTA
18:11 Feb 09
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
NOOJEE
14
MT TOORONGO
4KM NNE VESPER
18:00 Feb 09
Going
STATE FOREST
09/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
68
Britania Range - Platts Creek
5 Km E of Big Patts Creek
16:00 Feb 09
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
50
Yarra State Forest - Federal Short Cut
10 Km ESE of Warburton
15:39 Feb 09
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
57
Three Bridges - Taylors Track
2.5 km NE of Gladysdale
19:37 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
64
HEALSVILLE- CHUM CREEK
N of Healsville
19:36 Feb 08
Going
PRIVATE PROPERTY
08/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
63
WARBURTON - BIG PATS CREEK
6km ESE of Warburton
19:35 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
08/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
61
UPPER YARRA - DOCTORS CREEK
4km E of Reefton
19:30 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
60
MAROONDAH - MT RIDDELL
4km SE Healsville
19:23 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
55
Britania Creek - Britania Range tk & Alice tk
2 Km NE of Gladysdale
19:15 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
51
O`Shannassy - Road 8
12km S of Marysville
19:08 Feb 08
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
59
BRITTANIA RANGE - JUSTICE TRK
2km SSE of Wesburn
20:36 Feb 07
Going
STATE FOREST
07/02
NOOJEE
15
NEERIM-PIG PADDOCK
25KM SW NOOJEE
20:00 Feb 07
Going
STATE FOREST
29/01
YARRAM
8
DELBURN COMPLEX
10KM SE CHURCHILL
13:14 Feb 07
Contained
6440
08/02
WIMMERA
34
LITTLE DESERT - LILLIMUR
14 KM NW MINIMAY
7:01 Feb 09
Contained
1366
NATIONAL PARK
07/02
OTWAY
10
WEERITE- DANEDITE ROAD
7KM E CAMPERDOWN
17:22 Feb 08
Contained
1280
OCCUPIED CROWN LAND
07/02
BENDIGO
82
Eaglehawk - Bracewell St
1km W Eaglehawk
18:38 Feb 08
Contained
594
PRIVATE PROPERTY
07/02
EAST PORT PHILLIP
58
Narre Warren North - Crawley Road
1 Km NW Harkaway
15:44 Feb 08
Contained
170
PRIVATE PROPERTY
31/01
HEYFIELD
20
LICOLA - TARGET CREEK
2KM N LICOLA
16:21 Feb 06
Contained
135
PRIVATE PROPERTY
09/02
OVENS
43
KERGUNYAH
KERGUNYAH / SIMPSONS LANE
16:01 Feb 09
Contained
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 09-02-2009 10:20
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omg!
it must literally look like hell down under...
I hope you can somehow overcome that nightmare
We usually are harmed by a great number of fires too here in Portugal during the summer but obviously nothing like those proportions...
it is just crazy the global wheather these days. We've been having one of the coldest winters while you been having that unimaginable heat...
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| Roman Kreuziger |
Posted on 09-02-2009 10:52
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Really sad what's happening in Australia, though what do pepole (two or three) think with to make bushfires like that?
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| rodda |
Posted on 09-02-2009 13:20
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The news just said an entire town has been cordoned off by police as a crime scene to build the arson case
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| rodda |
Posted on 10-02-2009 10:55
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181 confirmed dead now, they are now saying possibly 300
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 10-02-2009 11:36
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Cadel Evans commented on it yesterday, saying that his childhood village was pretty much gone. |
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| rodda |
Posted on 16-02-2009 15:13
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One guy has been charged with starting a fire that killed 11 people, some press are saying he did it as payback for his girlfriend cheating on him, as she was a volunteer firefighter.
They also found child porn in his possession
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 17-02-2009 08:08
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do you have death penalty in Australia?
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| rodda |
Posted on 17-02-2009 09:30
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Nope, but he'd want to be bloody careful in prison I'd reckon
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| p3druh |
Posted on 17-02-2009 10:19
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
do you have death penalty in Australia?
Death penalty simply doesn't work. The crimes punishable with death are unusually violent crimes, and the ones that actually commit those crimes aren't afraid of being caught. If being caught was a possibility in their head they would have never committed the crime in the first place. And this is not just me talking, dozens of jurists and psychologists have studied the subject thoroughly and came to the same conclusion.
Prison will be enough of a hell for him when the other convicts find out what he did... Especially for the child pornography thing...
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 17-02-2009 16:14
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p3druh wrote:
Gustavovskiy wrote:
do you have death penalty in Australia?
Death penalty simply doesn't work. The crimes punishable with death are unusually violent crimes, and the ones that actually commit those crimes aren't afraid of being caught. If being caught was a possibility in their head they would have never committed the crime in the first place. And this is not just me talking, dozens of jurists and psychologists have studied the subject thoroughly and came to the same conclusion.
Prison will be enough of a hell for him when the other convicts find out what he did... Especially for the child pornography thing...
I'm not a death penalty suporter pedruh I was just looking to aknowledge what will happen to that bastard.
In fact i don't think death penalty is a viable sentence in any case...
but I agree with you actually. Prison may be worst than hell for that guy!
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| t-baum |
Posted on 17-02-2009 16:38
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If you ask me, life in prison is probably worse then the death sentence.
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| p3druh |
Posted on 17-02-2009 16:43
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
p3druh wrote:
Gustavovskiy wrote:
do you have death penalty in Australia?
Death penalty simply doesn't work. The crimes punishable with death are unusually violent crimes, and the ones that actually commit those crimes aren't afraid of being caught. If being caught was a possibility in their head they would have never committed the crime in the first place. And this is not just me talking, dozens of jurists and psychologists have studied the subject thoroughly and came to the same conclusion.
Prison will be enough of a hell for him when the other convicts find out what he did... Especially for the child pornography thing...
I'm not a death penalty suporter pedruh I was just looking to aknowledge what will happen to that bastard.
In fact i don't think death penalty is a viable sentence in any case...
but I agree with you actually. Prison may be worst than hell for that guy!
I know, I wasn't saying you were suporting death penalty, I was just ranting a bit. 
t-baum wrote:
If you ask me, life in prison is probably worse then the death sentence.
It's a bit relative and hard to say without living it but I agree.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 17-02-2009 17:07
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So I walk into this bushfires thread, right.......and people in there are ranting about the death penalty
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| rodda |
Posted on 18-02-2009 13:26
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I know right isso... rather disorientating
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