Fire

[atpchas]

Fires in Australia make for a smoky Melbourne
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153746/bushfires-char-victoria

 

[trains]

Pretty bad over there at the moment, and the weather is not helping.

 

[trains]

I got paged to a fire that was only a couple of houses away yesterday. It was a good experience for me to run a hose reel for 45 minutes while the FireHawk did the heavy lifting

Ive been right next to a helo drop, and its like a van sized slug of water hits the ground, you do not want to be under it.
Tho to be fair, when they dropped next to us, we were in a flare up, and they had just refilled at a dam, and were less than 100ft up when they saw us and came back and dropped saving us from the wind change in the gulley.
Scary and awesome at the same time.
Stay safe over there, were on high alert here at the moment too.