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bushfires - Dec 06
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Images of some of the scenes on the central Gippsland plains during the most devastating day of the Victorian bushfires in December 2006. Incredibly the area was plunged into darkness by smoke in the early afternoon, then as instability increased from the immense heat of the huge fires pyrocumulus developed over a large area and preceded to precipitate a muddy black ash type rain (Sale recorded 2.0mm). Cars emerging from this 'other world' were coated in a dark layer of muck, wipers and headlights on (police and emergency vehicles looked particularly bizarre). ABC Gippsland did a brilliant service by broadcasting as an emergency radio service with constant updates on the fires threatening so many towns from Walhalla to Dargo. They took calls from calm and distressed people as they stood defiant or fled the homes as 10 story high walls of firestorms raged towards them.Others rang in offering accomodation,free agistment,hay,water,food,pumps or generators. For myself it was an eerie type of emotional feeling as pretty much everywhere there was fires I knew of and had been to. With my knowledge of the roads, where the bush was etcI kept myself away from the fire fronts and safe and importantly away from emergency services in order not to choke up or hinder the brilliant efforts by everyone in this drastic time.
33 files, last one added on Jan 18, 2007
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turbulent skies172 viewssmoke and bushfire enhanced instability combine to generate this seemingly supernatural scene - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006May 05, 2025 at 02:21 AM
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smoke rise167 viewsSmoke cloaks the mountains around Norman Bay at dawn - Wilson's Promontory Dec.23 2006May 05, 2025 at 02:13 AM
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ghost tree160 viewsas ghostly as the skies above this dead red gum still stands to witness this incredible day - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006May 05, 2025 at 02:12 AM
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skies ablaze...161 viewshauntingly brilliantly illuminated skies - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006 May 05, 2025 at 02:04 AM
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