Yas Ruddkipz was shattered, nice to see his humanity.
Good to hear your safe, Beechworth is clear, just burning through the smaller valley's.
This fire was like nothing ever seen before, it was so ferocious.
They were saying they wont send fire fighters out if the heat energy is 4000kw and over as it becomes a suicide mission; this one was above 40,000kw.
126 Dead now. Its just fucking unbelievable. I suppose the bonus is that now we all know what is a defendedable fire, and what is simply impossible to fight.
There was an amazing story in Gippsland of a guy and his horse, the horse threw him down an embankment coz he was on fire, he rolled into a creek..and followed it home, when he got there, his horse was waiting for him. Burnt but alive.
The army is out digging pits for all the cattle, over 10,000 head of sheep already lost.
Apparently they can see red haze smoke in new zealand!