To: naturalman1975
Received an email from girlfriend in Ozland ... she’s saying that lots of those fires were started by arson - the authorities are calling them terrorist arson’s and if those people are found will be tried for murder ....
2 posted on
02/08/2009 1:01:28 PM PST by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: naturalman1975
Awful tragedy here.
These wildfires, do they spread so fast that people can’t be evacuated on time? Or are the deaths because people fail to evacuate, fearing looting?
To: naturalman1975
4 posted on
02/08/2009 1:06:25 PM PST by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: naturalman1975
IIRC, in an earlier post you noted you were a volunteer firefighter. Are you being called in on this one?
By the way, here's a link to the largest wildland fire in US history: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Between 1200-2400 people died, and over two million trees, several towns burned. Oddly, it happened on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 1871.
8 posted on
02/08/2009 1:13:16 PM PST by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: naturalman1975
Some unprecedented features in this fire include:
- speed
- eucalyptus trees exploding
15 posted on
02/08/2009 1:51:49 PM PST by
VlPu
To: naturalman1975
Yikes.
Best wishes to the affected.
19 posted on
02/09/2009 1:19:52 PM PST by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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