Reposting what my sis has posted (she used one of the telescopes for her honours ( Read more... )

A tiny bit of good news in the Victorian bushfires, with the death toll being revised down by nearly 40.

THE death toll of the Black Saturday bushfires has been revised down from 210 to 173 after the coroner's office was finally able to classify the horrendously damaged human remains ( Read more... )

181. And they're expecting up to 300 (they're probably basing it on the missing persons lists).

But a tiny piece of brightness among the devastation.


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So many tears. So much heartbreak ( Read more... )

You keep hoping they're wrong, it's not going to get worse, but it does.

It's now officially Australia's greatest bushfire tragedy, exceeding the death toll of Ash Wednesday (1983) and Black Friday (1939).

The official toll is now 96. It will go past 100.

Those poor people.

65 now confirmed dead. Hospitals have said 3 critically injured will not survive.

I don't know how many more areas they have to go through, but this is getting towards the Ash Wednesday toll (Vic and SA).

The news gets worse and worse.

Thirty-five people are confirmed dead and the toll is expected to rise in Victoria's worst bushfires since Ash Wednesday ( Read more... )

I hope the Victorians here and their loved ones are okay. Absolutely shocking news, and it's only going to get worse once authorities finish going through the towns :(

VICTORIANS today awoke to the greatest bushfire catastrophe since Ash Wednesday. A statewide inferno that may have claimed up to 40 lives is still burning out of control ( Read more... )

We've devised a new form of torture. Wrap someone up in elastoplast, leave it on for a day, then rip it off. There was lots of yelping and almost tears as mum took the tape off my back tonight and I have a welt ( Read more... )

All taken at our local oval. Helicopters and a shot or two of the awful smoke that had us nervous. Photos and commentary by sister.

( excitement, smoke and dirt )