Bushfire destroys homes on North Stradbroke Island
Bushfire destroys homes on North Stradbroke Island
09 December 2012
published by www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Australia — A North Stradbroke Island resident whose home was destroyed in a bushfire yesterday has vowed to rebuild.
Carol Delaney said she received just 10 minutes warning to evacuate her home as a bushfire tore across the island on Sunday.
They gave us 10 minutes to evacuate everything, Ms Delaney told 612 ABC Brisbane today.
We lost everything, the car, generator, TV, beds, lounge room.
I had my car off the road to get it fixed. Theres no good getting it fixed now.
Ms Delaney said she would rebuild on the island, despite the devastating loss.
The bushfire, which also destroyed three caravans belonging to other indigenous residents, is burning in accessible land within containment lines.
The Department of Community Safety cancelled a Watch and Act alert overnight, after the fire front was contained.
The fast-moving blaze tore through bushland on the island yesterday, forcing the evacuation of residents and campers from the town of Myora, near Dunwich.
The fire broke out in bushland off East Coast Road about 3pm and reached the area of Myora within two hours.
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
Two summers of unprecedented rain and unusually cool temperatures have left a large fuel load of grass and unburnt forest areas in and around Canberra.
A network of 500 fire trails and strategic burns along the north-west urban edge, heavy grazing and extra grass slashing will create a fortress for the territory which forecasters say faces a higher than average risk this summer.
After a fire-fuelled tornado in January 2003 killed four Canberrans and frightened thousands more, CSIRO fire expert Phil Cheney told the subsequent inquiry the fire’s penetration into urban areas under extreme conditions did not reflect a failure of fuel management on the urban interface.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmaXNjum
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
