Victoria bushfires: East Gippsland fires update

Bairnsdale incident controller Ben Rankin updates reporters on bushfires in Australia’s East Gippsland area. Rankin says the area is facing extreme fire danger. ‘We will get big column development today and quite significant runs of fire if anything breaks out of the control lines we’ve currently got,’ Rankin says. He says a cool change expected around midnight will present its own challenges and may lead to new runs of fire

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29 COMMENTS

  1. Hmmmp if i were you put a mad and lommy soil in a bucket fell with water then bomb it into the air directly to the fire thats how you stop that wild fire . If u used a ordinary water the fire will laugh at u. Try a swamp water with a mad soil then mixed it before throwing into the air directly on bush of fire

  2. Since Australia’s outa layer is burning, why dosent new zealend or something bomb the water witch causes a tsunami towards Australia and then we evacuate everyone to the middle sort of so the water just covers the bush fire I think that will be used as a last resort

  3. Imagine if all the money that was spent on the stupid new year's fireworks displays across the country actually went to the bushfire fund instead?

    🤔

    Oh, wait.. because all of you mindless consumer-drones out there going ONE SINGLE YEAR without fireworks is SO much worse of a disaster than all the bushfires destroying countless lives. 🤦‍♂️ Silly me.

  4. We have been going to kosciuszko national park for past 10 years we went there on Monday morning and were evacuated due to the fires on Tuesday I was gutted but thanks to the emergency services we got out in time and got home safely.

    Salute to the volunteers,fire fighters, armed forces and all other people who are working day and night to fight the fires and keep us all safe.

  5. The fires east of Bairnsdale and around Sarsfield Clifton creek was a result of a Back burn that they didn’t have the resources to patrol the perimeter and as such they got away and this is the outcome. If people only realise what is really going on.

  6. ***THE MORRISON LIBERAL GOVERNMENT***is without a doubt the absolute cause of this disaster …..They listen to the greens and not the science !!!! AND NOT THE GLOBAL WARMING NONSENSE…..this will be their get out of jail card !!! mark my words…..
    THESE ARE THE TRUE FACTS
    A bushfire need 3 things …..1 is oxygen ….AIR ….summer air is hot …2 …ignition …be it lightning …unmaintained power lines ETC…..and most important FUEL……
    A scientific fact that a forest will deposit 1 ton per year of fuel on the ground…..
    A scientific fact is that a bushfire intensity can and has been measured in megawatts per meter … can be controlled up to a maximum of 3 to 4 megawatts …with aircraft ..trucks and tenders etc..The Sydney fires are 10 fold plus and humanly impossible to stop..
    Only rain or burn to the sea will they be extinguished..
    The cause of this devastating event is the """NOT OFF SEASON BURNING TO REDUCE THE GROUND FUEL …"""
    OFFSEASON BURNING IS CONTROLLED AND NOT A """SCORCHED EARTH SCENARIO….promotes new growth and rejuvenation
    The result of these massive fires is a sterile ..scorched earth where everything is dead ..
    THE FUEL FOR THESE FIRES IS FROM THE GREENS AND THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTENTION TO THEIR INSANE POLICIES …

  7. I’m surprised Australia doesn’t use the Beriev BE-200 Fire fighting jet that’s been used in Greece, Spain, Portugal and of course in it’s country of origin Russia. It loads 30% more water in 1/3 the time of the Sikorsky helicopters Australia leases, and can travel to the fires at 3.5 x the speed of the Sikorsky. It can even fill up in seas with 1.3m waves.

  8. So let me get this right, let’s say hypothetically that both climate change and global warming do exist and are true. Let’s hypothetically say we have a drastic change in weather and we start getting weeks of 40-45 degrees. What will happen then???

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