Australia on fire

[Strategy]

The number of deaths from bushfires that have already claimed 170 lives in the Australian state of Victoria is likely to rise, officials have warned.

Police believe some of the fires were started deliberately - actions which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said amounted to "mass murder".

Survivors have recounted how they fled walls of flames. Some people died in their cars trying to escape the fires.

Some rural towns have been completely destroyed.

Police have sealed off a number of sites, including the devastated small town of Maryville, as possible crime scenes.

Victoria State Premier John Brumby said: "We have had whole communities just completely wiped out, completely obliterated, by what people would describe as literally a fireball that just came over the hills and devoured everything before them.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7878106.stm

[sexpuppet6000]

sigh*

[MrBurns]

Thanks for the post dude, I didn't see it on the front page of everywhere....

[conbabes]

Yes indeed very sad.

Here is a link with some good pics of this.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html

[gordholio]

Good luck to our brothers down there on the recovery.

[bokep]

they've been in drought for years

global warming ****ed australia up the bum

[mlc2000]

they've been in drought for years

global warming ****ed australia up the bum

What did they call a drought before we heard of global warming?
Oh yea, it was a drought.

Too easy to blame everything on Global Warming.

[Emancipated]

Those pictures sure look great for a magazine or website headline but to imagine the veracity of a fire that can claim a person who's unable to escape from their car is very chilly. Imagine you're stuck on a hill with winding roads but fires do not travel according to roads which your car does; you're essentially at the mercy of your own two feet and how fast they can take you to safety. Very sad to hear people dying in their cars.