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(Some of you have probably been flooded with similar posts lately, but I have to get it off my chest.)
Death toll is currently 181, although 300 feared. (Thousands more are homeless, tens of thousands more without power.)
These fires ripping through my state are almost like a terrorist attack: buildings exploding from the heat, the burns units in hospitals are full - and what makes me absolutely sick is that some of these fires were deliberately lit, not just from the scorching temperatures and drought. For once I'll agree with the Prime Minister and say those people are mass murderers.
There are massive appeals in all the media, fundraising drives, thousands trying to give blood and donating anything they can. In two days the country has raised $30 million dollars and it makes me so proud to see everyone pulling together in the way these horrific things do.
You open any newspaper or watch a news report and read the stories of people dashing to their cars with nothing other than what they're wearing, trying to escape, but the flames catching up and incinerating them. I used to think drowning was the worst way to go; now I'm thinking being burnt alive would be. There's this account of how this family ran from house to house, trying to find refuge but the fires kept coming after them. It's right-on terrifying and I still can't comprehend entire towns being reduced to nothing but rubble. I used to go to Marysville as a kid on camp, and now it's all gone.
(I know it's been posted a lot but it's so iconic, really.)
Bless all of the CFA; I can't begin to describe how truly selfless and heroic they are.
Death toll is currently 181, although 300 feared. (Thousands more are homeless, tens of thousands more without power.)
These fires ripping through my state are almost like a terrorist attack: buildings exploding from the heat, the burns units in hospitals are full - and what makes me absolutely sick is that some of these fires were deliberately lit, not just from the scorching temperatures and drought. For once I'll agree with the Prime Minister and say those people are mass murderers.
There are massive appeals in all the media, fundraising drives, thousands trying to give blood and donating anything they can. In two days the country has raised $30 million dollars and it makes me so proud to see everyone pulling together in the way these horrific things do.
You open any newspaper or watch a news report and read the stories of people dashing to their cars with nothing other than what they're wearing, trying to escape, but the flames catching up and incinerating them. I used to think drowning was the worst way to go; now I'm thinking being burnt alive would be. There's this account of how this family ran from house to house, trying to find refuge but the fires kept coming after them. It's right-on terrifying and I still can't comprehend entire towns being reduced to nothing but rubble. I used to go to Marysville as a kid on camp, and now it's all gone.
(I know it's been posted a lot but it's so iconic, really.)
Bless all of the CFA; I can't begin to describe how truly selfless and heroic they are.