Bushfires

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65 are confirmed dead Police are looking for some arsonists. They will be charged with murder. arseholes.

The town of Marysville is gone but the people made it out.

It just gets worse with every report.

Comments

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

It's been 18 years since the Berkeley Hills fire, which wiped out a large patch of Oakland, Berkeley, Piedmont, etc. It was fueled by the eucalyptus trees which were planted early in the 1900s, and which spread wild all over the hills.

Damn koalas.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

The eucalyptus came here in the 1850s. :/

The Oakland firestorm was rather immediate, for me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/tags/oaklandhillsfire/

The fires in Victoria aren't too far outside of Melbourne, and had (have?) the potential to be much more urban and dangerous to humans.