I was driving home from my UNE office yesterday when I saw a column of smoke rising from a hill-top near our home. Intrigued, I navigated to the scene of the blaze, along with quite a few other motorists and also the fire brigade. And this is what I saw:
There was a bloke walking around the edge of the blaze and I presumed that it was a controlled burn-off of very dry vegetation in what has turned out to be for us a severe drought. Such events are designed to prevent larger and more damaging fires later on. The pictures are directed at the seat of the fire, which I saw burning away close the bushes you can see at the top of the ridge. And I judged that the fire engine was there to prevent the fire getting out of control if that looked likely.
By the way, the wind took the smoke in the direction of our home, though fortunately it's somewhat lower than the scene of the fire and mostly passed overhead.
AS
There was a bloke walking around the edge of the blaze and I presumed that it was a controlled burn-off of very dry vegetation in what has turned out to be for us a severe drought. Such events are designed to prevent larger and more damaging fires later on. The pictures are directed at the seat of the fire, which I saw burning away close the bushes you can see at the top of the ridge. And I judged that the fire engine was there to prevent the fire getting out of control if that looked likely.
By the way, the wind took the smoke in the direction of our home, though fortunately it's somewhat lower than the scene of the fire and mostly passed overhead.
AS
