Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome:
"It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces.
Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK
