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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.
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up above183 viewsthe sun is no where near this part of the sky... - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006Oct 21, 2025 at 01:56 PM
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incredible184 viewsAn incredible light encompasses the entire region in late afternoon as the Coopers creek/Heyfield and Driffield/Yinnar fires rampage through forests and communities - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006Oct 21, 2025 at 01:56 PM
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give way185 viewsas late afternoon draws the smoke filled skies that plummeted the region into darkness in the ealry afternoon begin to turn an eerie orange - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006Oct 21, 2025 at 01:56 PM
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stockyard cauldron186 viewsthis cattle race stands in stark contrast to the incredibly lit sky as the region is flanked by raging fires on many fronts - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006Oct 21, 2025 at 01:56 PM
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