Fire Season - Hazard Reduction - El Nino Will Bring What?

[GTR-N1]

RFS Crews from Illawong, Leura, Katoomba, Valley Heights, Faulconbridge (where I belong) are burning off fuel in our backyard tonight. They'll be there until midnight after which another shift begins.

So if you guys smell smoke tomorrow!...

Maria has been serving out pineapple buns from Burwood lol

And I've been chatting like a council worker lol

At least my fire plan is up to scratch already.

[GTR-N1]

Linden and Blackheath brigades have taken over God bless 'em

[fatz]

Toasty

[JZP]

At least your guys are quite active.

The back burning to date around me in Kinglake (my opinion) is woeful. You reckon they'd be on it like rat up a drainpipe since black Saturday, ensuring (at least ) residential and rural areas are better protected by the same arrangements you guys are undergoing.

[GTR-N1]

Before the burnoff...

36 hrs after the hazard reduction - this morning.

[JZP]

Excellent result. Are you allowed to keep the re growth down? Or isn't it your property?

[GTR-N1]

Black Friday was horrific for you guys at Maryville and Kinglake.

Communication is a lifesaver when it's operating. Tragic when it's not.

And when at Kinglake there are so few ways in or out of there, communication is critical.

I carried out an experiment 36 hours after the HR (hazard reduction) during AF (after fire) stage.

A week ago, I bought myself one of these 'thingys'.

[GTR-N1]

Our property of 3950 sq m yes, does include this...

So with my IR Laser Thermometer I decided to check temperatures around the block.

Most places had cooled off. But...

This unobtrusive position came up as 91.9 degrees.

And a few smoking spots registered above 250 degrees. Interesting?

[MrStabby]

For high accuracy with an IR gun you need to set the emissivity for the material being measured, and will read differently depending on light conditions. Might also be a distance effect? I'm not sure how much difference all that makes tho. Do you think the values seem about right?

[GTR-N1]

They seem to be correct whilst I was pointing downwards at about 40 to 60 degrees from horizontal each time which would make each reading relative I suppose.

[JZP]

Black Friday was horrific for you guys at Maryville and Kinglake.

Communication is a lifesaver when it's operating. Tragic when it's not.

And when at Kinglake there are so few ways in or out of there, communication is critical.

I carried out an experiment 36 hours after the HR (hazard reduction) during AF (after fire) stage.

A week ago, I bought myself one of these 'thingys'.

We were lucky. We went to the beach that day and couldn't get back in till the following Wednesday only to find everything gone. Lots of lessons could have been learnt by the fire authorities; In reading the weather, support services, emergency procedures, communication, police controls and communication.

It seems the authorities still need to learn. Given the lancefield Fire - again they didn't read the conditions. Hope the token effort of fuel reduction plans isn't compromised because of the poor planning at Lancefield.

The fuel reduction in your backyard is immensely important.

Regarding heat spots, we had ash pits in the ground that were scorching hot for weeks.