Immense scale of Victorian bushfires revealed with thermal camera

Victoria fires: state of disaster declared as evacuation ordered and 28 people missing ► https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/03/victoria-fires-state-of-disaster-declared-as-evacuation-ordered-and-second-man-found-dead

wow thats alot of of flame, mother nature is so unforgiving.

Capitalism is in its final phase it will sooner destroy the planet then change to a better economic system that can protect the earth

I live in the Disaster zone in the south east. It got close to my town and we were on emergency level warning for a while with fire around our locality but it spared us this round. It just got very hot and smokey with soot settling everywhere and burnt leaves falling on the town. It was scary, though I have lived with regular natural flood and fire disasters here since early childhood. This year was a bit worse…The worst part is not knowing what is going to happen or not happen next. You are mentally on edge 24/7 for days on end in the heat and smoke, ready to enact your fire survival plan to "stay and defend" or evacuate fast in the often small window of opportunity the authorities tell you over the radio that you may have. After awhile of this, it starts to play on people's mental health, all the stress, lack of sleep etc locals start to make bizarre comments, like "All that work we did getting ready for the flames to visit our place and all wasted. Nothing happened…" It is said in nest and others reply "Oh, don't worry, there's still time to be visited by the big flames. Still got hot dry February to burn up in…" I pick up a few burnt leaves on the lawn and say "No, they've just sent these to let us know in advance they are planning to visit us, so clear all the old rubbish away…" But, everybody is really scared, deep down and feeling the pain and anger of it all, our pain, the painof others who lost all to fire, including pets,animals, loved ones, homes…There is this sense of feeling ano elming need to blame someone but not knowing who or what, though some say they know exactly who wants shooting for such a disaster. Politicians. I don't get involved in such angry discussions. I see angry local men walking down the street alone,muttering obscenities out loud, perfectly sane and sober, talking to themselves, just to vent their anger, women doing ridiculous things like endless obsessive cooking and cleaning. I asked one why and she replied "'Cause it might be our last meal ever and I want to leave everything nice and clean, I order, just in case…" I look at her and ask "Just I case what? You know, we might just survive all this…" To try and take her mind off what I know she is focussing on. Death and destruction. As it's hard not to when all you see is smoke, ash, blackened burnt trees etc. "Yes, you are right"she guesses my thought pattern and looks a little less depressed "If we do housework, cook food, fix the garden getting covered in burnt gum leaves blowing down from bushfires a few miles away, we can feel hopeful that we'll survive and so we need food, the garden, to clean up…" It sounds like crazy thinking in the midst of a disaster but, oddly enough, it helps us cope emotionally with its enormity. One older man was nearly going off his mind because he lost track of the days, as many of us did and put his rubbish binout on the wrong day and saw there was "only one bin left, his", as if he was the last survivor, as that was the thought on his stressed out exhausted older person's mind. He was getting pretty angry, aggressive, out of control, shouting etc, cursing, swearing, when he is normally very quiet and placid. I went up to him wheeling his solitary rubbish bin and said "My bin goes right there, next to your bin, right!?! Yours is not the only one!?! " He was still cursing, shout in rage at the fires, the whole bloody society going to the dogs etc etc. I went up to him, eye ball to eyeball and stared him in the eyes at close range and said words tto the effect of "Your are stressed". And, almost as if this news had come as a surprise to him, he asked "Really?" Now this started to play on my own mind because, after doing that to a man, I would expect he would tell me off. But he became like a poor, helpless scared boy…It was unreal..In fact the whole place and the way people behaved and interacted with each took on this surreal character. Like as if we were not real people in a real town but actors in some kind of peculiar movie screen…Very odd sensation. But, after the fires settled down a little and a cooler weather change came, this strange community behaviour returned to something more usual.

We build world air firefight force?

This is the worst fire season we’ve ever had in our known history in Australia. Our Firies are legends, most are volunteers and many are small business people who’ve left their own businesses and livelihoods, to put other people’s lives first. The only thing they can do is try to protect properties and townships and people. The water bombers and planes with fire retardants can only do so much to try to contain all this. But we are so very grateful for all the help from overseas Fire Fighters. Our Firies have been at this for months now without a break. I can’t imagine that stress! The fires can burn up to 1,000 degrees C (thats 1,832 degrees F). It melts glass windshields like plastic. I was in the dreadful fires in Canberra in 2003, a major disaster, but that was nothing like this. Estimated, half our koalas are gone — they climb higher in the trees when threatened, but that’s where the crown of the fire hits. Absolutely heartbreaking. And over 1,000 homes gone. Truly horrendous!

And instead of fighting the fires they focus on relocating people, absolute disgrace.

I'm still waiting on someone to mention the natives, what about the aboriginal people.

This is so devastating. I'm an American living in Melbourne and my heart goes out to Australia. The city has filled with smoke, along with every major Australian city. It's a frightening vision that has put climate change more into perspective for me. Thanks for sharing this video and helping to demonstrate the immensity of this disaster.

The real end is coming..2020.

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Victoria is a state below New South Wales,basically southern eatside state

… least they won't have to put another shrimp on the barbie 😉

Throw another shrimp 🦐 on the barbe

undergound tunels from close mining is covering by water isolators are bad soo ground is very hot

Sko Mow
We the people need a leader we are at war, the enemy is strong where is our weaponary to fight back, why did you go to Hawaii while our country was catching fire..you tick all the boxes for being a coward..

I wonder if ppl acc look at this and still believe that climate change is a myth🤔

t's a video of Mallacoota on the east of Victoria – coastal town where 4000 people fled to the beach and stayed in water as fire came down to the sand

Glad to be in Queensland

OMG 😟

Mother nature Is unstoppable. Bless everyone that has been affected <3

Incredible to see this. It hard to grasp the scale of it all living in the safety of a big city. Feeling a lot for the people and wildlife in fire affected areas around Australia.

That is crazy plus

Patti here: what started the fires?

🙁 no words

It looks like a lotr battle of middle-earth villains preparing for battle

Don't panic,Slomo (I mean Scomo ) is on the way.!!!

I have a few questions:
– From around 0:15 , what is the sharp dileneation ? Is that the edge of the heat camera's view?
– Starting around 0:42 , we see some very dark areas. Would those be bodies of water?
– Around 0:57 the fire borders are very sharp, but it appears to abut populated areas. What is keeping the fire so sharply at bay?
– Could you give GPS co-ordinates so we could find this area on a map?

Thank you!

At 0:20 I'm thinking well that doesn't look as bad as I'd imagined… then then camera pans and… OMFG…

What scumbag in the editors office thought playing music behind the footage was appropriate?

Are we supposed to be entertained by this?
No – so don't give it a soundtrack, you vulltures.

People didn’t want to listen when they were told climate change can do this to our planet years before it happens so we can try to prevent it but when it happens they get shocked…

This is why I feel so much anger towards Brexit. Why the hell are we pooling all our resources in to "getting Brexit done" when the sis the state our planet is in. We have bigger problems people.
Hold in there Australia.

I witnessed bushfires in aus , was a very strange and even creepy thing at times. What people forget is the fire you see above ground can sometimes be tip of the iceberg. I've driven through places where the fires had looked like they had gone out, just smouldering trunks and everything black as far as I could see, but when I got out the of the car could still feel heat and then noticed puffs of smoke coming from the ground, had a look around and could see cracks in the ground with an intense orange glow. It was like looking Into a volcano, the tree roots were still burning under the ground!
One way of reducing the problems is to do more controlled burning of the bush, but that don't get done as much as it used to because of all the whinging and whining from a certain group of people!!

This is the end of the world

The thing that truly matters in this world is the world. Only 2020 and these huge fires are sweeping across lands only at the pace we thought it would reach by 2080. It's hard to say this in todays society, but we need to all team up around the world to stop this destruction. At the end of the day it's not one nation that is responsible for the world's problems, we are all responsible as humans. Nothing matters more than Earth. Everyone and every animals might be and definately will be affected by this.

I saw the first 10 seconds and thought 'that's not that big'.

Boy was i wrong

Victoria has fallen.

That is terrifying.

Devastating I'm so sad for the animals 🙁 Also bad typo Guardian come on

It looks pretty cool not gonna lie

Sorry Earth 🌍 <3

Heartbreaking seeing a habitat for animals being destroyed from human activity and the effects of our action to climate change (& global warming).

😢

And it's not much better when we gonna go into ww3 after what happened

Humans and over half a billion wildlife have perished, and are fleeing their homes. It’s incredibly heartbreaking 💔😢

This is a massive disaster, bearing in mind this video only shows a small fraction of the fires currently burning in Australia.