The images in the reports today have shown it starting low and burning rapidly up one side of the building before enveloping it.
Will keep ears open tomorrow. Must go. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz
With regards to the fridge:
Have you wished you’d had it on previous expeditions? If so , a fridge it is.
All of the Camper Vans I’ve used in NZ had an Electric Fridge, run from the domestic battery.
Short answer is yes if only because after several days stuff that is not well packaged gets waterlogged from the melting ice.
We have partially 'solved' that issue by dedicating one cooler as a 'don't add ice' unit and we cool it using frozen gallon jugs of water. Keeps things cold and unless the temps are continuously in the high 30's (° C) and someone - usually a teen - leaves the cooler in the sun or 'forgets' to latch it there is still an ice chunk in the jugs when I get back. And even should we need to toss some ice into it, it isn't as messy as the coolers stocked with loose ice from the start. And since I freeze gallons of Wallyworld "spring water" (the jugs with the asterisk and note that reads 'Source: Pittsburgh Municipal Water Supply' or similar ;-) we can, should we choose to disturb the equilibrium in the liquid/solid water mix, actually drink or otherwise use the potable melt.. ;-)
The hardest thing had been convincing those who make the daily ice run that just because they don't see any ice in that big white cooler, it really DOESN'T need any added.
All of the Camper Vans I’ve used ..had an Electric Fridge, run from the domestic battery.
They have camper models that are propane, propane and 12 V battery, and propane, battery, and AC line. If we choose to pursue that thought we would probably be looking at the propane/battery type since there would be no AC line where we are, but there are plenty of vehicles should a 12V back up become necessary.