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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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skies ablaze...157 viewshauntingly brilliantly illuminated skies - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006 Mar 15, 2025 at 08:51 AM
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incredible150 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, 14-12-2006Mar 15, 2025 at 08:51 AM
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cauldron road156 viewslooking east near the township of Sale around 6pm as an eerie orange light clokes the area - central Gippsland, 14-12-2006Mar 15, 2025 at 06:50 AM
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rainforest regrowth II345 viewsthe tree ferns in this rainforest gully sprouted quite quickly after rains.Mar 15, 2025 at 05:27 AM
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