Thurs 31.1.19 2050
The fire is now at just over 56000 ha - about 139000 acres. That's the bad news. The good news is that during today the firies were able to strengthen containment lines in several areas to guide the fire away from homes and villages. Judbury, Glen Huon and Lonnavale are still under Emergency Watches and doing it really tough. However, Franklin is back to Watch and Wait: not out of the woods yet, but a much improved situation to last night.
I'm back home now and Sue will come back tomorrow if the situation is the same as tonight.
We received 1 or 2 mm of rain today which cooled the place down and raised the humidity, giving the firefighters opportunity to work on back burning, etc, in several areas. Water bombing was going on South, West and North-West of our place until about 1830.
Still praying, but less stressed than last night.
Still no lives lost and no more structures lost today. These firies are magnificent!
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The fire increased by 5000ha today, to 37000ha. That's roughly 92000 acres.
I was up at the house for a few hours this morning and then managed to get back after the highway was closed this evening, just to feed the pig and wet down.
Really strange to be soaking the bale walls again with the fire hose after 2 years of making sure they were kept completely dry. We figure that if we lose the bales to mould, but save the house from fire, we're way ahead.
Praying and waiting.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Tues 29.1 1410
The fire is now at 32000 ha. We're getting a little ash, but no embers at this stage. Castle Forbes Bay, about 6 km to the South of us has just been evacuated.
Waterbombing is continuing NW and S of us.
I pulled out shortly after writing the above. We watched the Huon Council briefing session on Facebook this evening and it was pretty grim. The fire continues to grow, but, thankfully, there has been no loss of life.
We are still hopeful that our place might dodge the bullet. The fire is still to the S, W and NW of us with a prevailing NW breeze forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The Tas Fire Service have been bulldozing containment lines to the NW and W of us, so we are hopeful that the fire might bypass us.
The fire is now at 32000 ha. We're getting a little ash, but no embers at this stage. Castle Forbes Bay, about 6 km to the South of us has just been evacuated.
Waterbombing is continuing NW and S of us.
I pulled out shortly after writing the above. We watched the Huon Council briefing session on Facebook this evening and it was pretty grim. The fire continues to grow, but, thankfully, there has been no loss of life.
We are still hopeful that our place might dodge the bullet. The fire is still to the S, W and NW of us with a prevailing NW breeze forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The Tas Fire Service have been bulldozing containment lines to the NW and W of us, so we are hopeful that the fire might bypass us.
We're just to the West of the red flame symbol.
The fire doubled in size today and has made a massive run into CFB today. That's the community impacted by the northernmost finger of fire front near the river above Geeveston.
Tuesday 29.1 0915
We were door knocked by Police yesterday afternoon and evacuated. Our neighbour stayed to monitor the situation while we went to a friend's place on the other side of the river.
I'm back at our place now and am relieved to see that we got through last night with no dramas.
However, the situation today is still rough. Temperatures are higher than yesterday, low humidity, and the wind is due to pick up this afternoon. The fire is about 4 km away from us.
Before we left last night I fired up the fire pump and watered around the house site, under the verandah and the bale walls. It felt seriously strange to be playing a fire hose on bales that I've spent 2 years keeping dry.
I'm about to go down to the house site to see if there's anything I can do to better prepare it.
We were door knocked by Police yesterday afternoon and evacuated. Our neighbour stayed to monitor the situation while we went to a friend's place on the other side of the river.
I'm back at our place now and am relieved to see that we got through last night with no dramas.
However, the situation today is still rough. Temperatures are higher than yesterday, low humidity, and the wind is due to pick up this afternoon. The fire is about 4 km away from us.
Before we left last night I fired up the fire pump and watered around the house site, under the verandah and the bale walls. It felt seriously strange to be playing a fire hose on bales that I've spent 2 years keeping dry.
I'm about to go down to the house site to see if there's anything I can do to better prepare it.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Monday 28.1 1533
This is the current situation.
The fire has made a run and the firies on the ground have been pulled back to protect homes and door knock for evacuation South and NW of us. We are still on Watch and Wait.
The fire is about 5 km from us at present.
As a trivial aside: my bees are seriously irritated with all this smoke around.
The fire has made a run and the firies on the ground have been pulled back to protect homes and door knock for evacuation South and NW of us. We are still on Watch and Wait.
The fire is about 5 km from us at present.
As a trivial aside: my bees are seriously irritated with all this smoke around.
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