We had our first ever brush with a bushfire on Tuesday. You may have heard on the news about the fires in the Golden Bay / Karnup area... well, that's just across the road from us. It was close enough that I evacuated the kids over to mum's place then spent the entire afternoon perched on a hill watching how the fire was progressing to see if it was going to jump the road into the bush next to our house. Thankfully, it didn't and we are safe. It did, however, take the firefighters over 2 days to get the fire under control.
I took this photo standing in the bush next to our house. See the houses on the left... follow that fence line back behind where I am standing and at the bottom of the hill, we are the second house in. You can see why I was panicking about the fire getting onto our side of the road. About a couple of hundres meteres down the road is a petrol station which the fire fighters defending furiously... and directly behind this wall of flames is a Wildlife Park which they also managed to save.... these people truly deserve a medal.
By the way... this little section of fire is just a very small part of the entire length of it
For 2 days it felt like we were in the middle of a war zone. There were helicopters and water bomber planes everywhere flying super fast and really quite low. Aiden was actually getting a bit freaked out about the amount of air traffic above our house.
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This is craaaaaziness Sara!!! You are so brave, I would have evacuated and run a mile with the fires that close!!! those images are amazing.
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