More than 50 fires across NSW; three emergency warnings in Sydney's west
One home alight; two firefighters injured
Cranebrook school evacuated; University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury campus closed






Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/bushfires-threaten-sydneys-western-suburbs-nsw-rural-fire-service-issues-emergency-warnings-20130910-2thnl.html#ixzz2eT5XHLra

Edited by iridium1010: 10/9/2013 04:29:00 PM

My manager got a call to say her house was at risk :/

Last summer was relatively quiet on the bushfire front. This summer is going to be catastrophic.

4 firefighters have now been taken to hospital - 1 with a heart attack.

Hearing reports that the fires have possibly been deliberately lit.

Sydney hasn't had serious rain in over 7 weeks. The bush around Sydney is drier than a nuns twat.

Agree with Afro, if we don't get serious rain soon, we could be seeing a repeat of those 2003 and Black Saturday bushfires.

Why haven't NSW rural firefighters been back-burning all winter?

You can't back-burn all winter. You need certain conditions to do it. You can only do a back-burn on an area once every 3-5 years if I remember correctly.

They have been doing it though, at least where I live. In the past month and a half there have been 2-3 smaller looking back-burns around my area every Saturday. Last year they did a lot of back-burning in my area as we hadn't had any fires for a decade.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

A friend of mine was stuck in a carriage at Seven Hill station for two hours. Eventually a woman went into labour and all passengers were evacuated for. The carriage and asked to walk down the track to Toongabbie station :lol:

Firebugs should be jailed for life.

Some good footage of how bad the fires got yesterday.

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/breaking-news/blog/2013/9/sydney-bushfire-videos/

Oh yeah. "You ruined thousands of lives, have free accommodation, food and a job".

That last photo in the OP seems incongruous.

It's showing the smoke haze shrouding the city.

The haze has been unreal for a week now. The mountains to the west look grey (if you can see them at all), not blue.

Has everything turned orange and the sun turned to blood yet?

I think one of the fires was actually back burning gone wrong... :?


Heineken reminded me...we HAVEN'T had rain for ages. Explains why my car is still shiny after I washed it over a month ago.

Its going to be a very hot summer.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2013/09/13/West_Sydney_bushfire_caused_by_arson_905852.html?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_L1-8_WestSydneybushfirecausedbyarson_RSS_130913

There was another small bushfire yesterday, just south of Newcastle. This one was actually stafrted by backburning. :lol: