PermeateFree said:

Kingy said:

The_observer said:

No, according to pf it was probably Kingy.

Yep, I drove 750km to light a fire so that I could drive back and then send one of my best crews and trucks 750km away to fight it while I try to find other crews to fight fires here, just so that I could be accused of arson by some imbecile on the internet.

Sounds legit.

I wonder if pf has volunteered to do anything useful there. My guess is no.

Lets get a few things straight Kingy!

I was here and very close to the main fire path, which I remind you had 41 degree temperatures and wind gusting to 100 km/hr. Have you even experienced this sort of thing yourself? I doubt it! I live on a property in its natural state i.e. covered in bush and in such extreme fire conditions I can assure you it is no picnic being here and ready to protect it.

I didn’t ask you to come 750 km, nor did I want or need your assistance, as I am very self-sufficient and used to fighting my own fires, so don’t try and hang that on me. And due to the circumstances and the high risk to myself and property, what do you suggest I do as a volunteer, leave the place and not be allowed back by people like you? I think you must be joking.

And before you go and accuse me of such things, kindy get your facts straight first!

As you might have guessed I am damned annoyed that a Climate Change Denying idiot should be considered a reliable source of information.

Sorry, I have had too much on my plate to follow the chat thread to find out what was said.

“41 degree temperatures and wind gusting to 100 km/hr. Have you even experienced this sort of thing yourself?”

Yes, several times. I almost lost my best mate in one of those. He spent months in the burns unit. He was on the back of a light tanker trying to defend someone elses property.

You may not have needed our assistance, but Scaddan did. Our guys spent half the time fighting the fires with them, and half the time providing grief counselling due to the very recent death of one of their members. Our crew was recalled on Saturday due to the potential for more emotional distress, and also as we needed them for other fires.

This is shaping up to be a particularly bad fire season. We are not even in Summer yet.