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Bush Fires: Rescue Live On Air

From the Bushfires that have claimed 76 lives in Victoria, Australia in the last 24 hours. People trapped on their property, surrounded by fire call into the 3AW radio station.

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  • Date 2/12/2009 8:04:27 PM
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Gimli000 : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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287 days 20 hours ago...

On a personal note: Marysville, the town that I grew up in has been flattened with few buildings left standing. Likely to have more than the 2 deaths reported so far.


From the latest updates available at the moment:

The Age 8th Feb 2009:
Survivors of the Kinglake fires have told of fleeing for their lives and losing neighbours, friends and homes in the blaze that destroyed their town.
Friends and family of victims of the fire broke down sobbing outside the Whittlesea community activity centre upon learning of the fates of 12 Kinglake residents who have perished in the blaze.
Marie Jones from Canberra, who was visiting a friend at Kinglake yesterday, said a badly-burnt man had arrived at the property where she was staying with his infant daughter, and told her his wife and other child had been killed.
"He was so badly burnt. He had skin hanging off him everywhere and his little girl was burnt, but not as badly as her dad, and he just came down and he said `Look, I`ve lost my wife, I`ve lost my other kid, I just need you to save [my daughter]`," Ms Jones said.
Ms Jones said she was later separated from the pair after travelling with them in an ambulance to Whittlesea.

Cathy Barber, from Pheasant Creek, managed to escape her now burnt-down home and huddled in the Kinglake School, which was also destroyed, before arriving at the evacuation centre in Whittlesea this morning.

She said she had reported the death of one of her neighbours and expected the official death toll would climb well beyond the current official figure of 35.

xpotsmoker : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

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286 days 21 hours ago...

180+ dead. 1000+ homes destroyed. Compleet suburbs just gone.

Last night it was 66 people dead and they still havent gone through all the affected areas checking for bodies. Its the most horrific natural disaster in Australian history and it looks like its just going too get worse in the coming days. Any ausies reading this, have a heart and give what you can to the Red Cross fire appeal 1800 811 700, nearly all of us can afford too give something. Go without your smokes or your beers this week, these people need it alot more than you do right now.

mcbarker : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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286 days 19 hours ago...

This is a horrible tragedy and the phone call was very moving.
Having said that, don`t they have rescue or military helicopters available in Australia for these evacuations?

atomicbomb : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

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283 days ago...

mcbarker, yes we do, but you have to understand this was a fire like australia has never seen. we get fires every season, and we are used to that. Every available resource was already employed and stretched to it`s limit. we had temperatures of over 45c and very strong winds that changed suddenly pushing the fire in a different direction, covering a vast distance and consuming whole towns in it`s path.

Daveoss : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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282 days 18 hours ago...

^ Nail on the head mate nail on the head. The other thing is it wasn`t just 1 day of over 45c days it was like a week everything is dry so its just a raging fire tearing through essentially kindling. People do not realize the speed at which a fire front travels, the heat produced by the front is enough to spark up fires without flames touching it.

Not only that but I`m sure everyone has seen the massive clouds of smoke as the fires burn, that makes it difficult for possible rescue attempts.

This is as has been said before the worst natural disaster in our history

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