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Smoke

Posted on Tuesday, 18th January 2005 at 6:41pm

Smoke from bush fires in the hills blanketed the sky over the weekend and made everything an eerie brown/orange colour. In the last few days six fires have raged through the eastern suburbs of Western Australia, police suspect arson. More photos on Flickr.

15 Responses to “Smoke”

The Wolf Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 7:12pm
A few fires took nine lives in SA last week to…

“4km in only 45 minutes”

The one that did killed nine people moved 25km in half an hour, scary. People packing up their cars found themselves in danger a long time before they expected.

Still, 100 people where injured during the fire so it could have been a LOT worse, although more than 100 people are homeless now.

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Spyder Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 8:23pm
We had a heap of smoke in bunbury too that day.. don’t know where the fire was tho….

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spyder Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 8:27pm
found it:
http://abc.net.au/news/australia/wa/bunbury/200501/s1283453.htm

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Fiona Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 8:46pm
Part of being in OZ, unfortunately.

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Porcelique Says:
January 19th, 2005 at 12:09am
City is looking a little smoggy in the mornings too…

Nice pictures by the way.

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Kris Says:
January 19th, 2005 at 4:10am
I know its a serious issue and all, but what happened to the sex related titles??? I mean you could’ve atleast said: “My Bush is on fire!”

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hezkbel Says:
January 19th, 2005 at 5:59am
Nice Pictures!… did you take them?

Regards!

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Matt Says:
January 19th, 2005 at 8:05am
Great photos, even though they are taken from the cause of fire. It was pretty bad my end which is the next town from yours nikita. We had a few fires yesterday too. Did you get thunderstorms the other day?

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Chris Says:
January 20th, 2005 at 2:37am
Bush fires via arson? My gawd! And I thought the fact that a one lone cigarette butt that was tossed out the window of a car back in the summer of 2003 was bad (causing a fire that nearly ripped through one of the largest cities in the interior of British Columbia).

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angela Says:
January 20th, 2005 at 6:57am
I know that smokey haze all too well. I live in Southern Cali where we had huge fires about a year ago! Makes you miss clean oxygen.

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Rufus Says:
January 20th, 2005 at 5:50pm
Great Blog. Looks Amazing.

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Kitta Says:
January 20th, 2005 at 6:05pm
Fiona, not really, they were all lit by an arsonist. There’s a $100,000 reward up for information.

Kris, yeah I think the sex related titles died.

Hezkbel, you I took them, why would I post photos that I didn’t take to my flickr account?

Matt, nope, no thunderstorms.

Thanks Rufus.

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Vagrant Says:
January 20th, 2005 at 9:33pm
That reward is the highest ever offered for an arson, supposedly - and up from 25k the same morning (!). Could there be an election coming.

I must have done something evil recently - completely forgot my cam yesterday (heavier smoke where I was than on Sun-Tues), despite numerous good intentions (for posterity), and then almost sprained something choking on the falling ash in the arvo.

Surreal.

>.<

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alex Says:
January 21st, 2005 at 9:57pm
i love the second photo.
I’ve had itchy eyes the past few days from all the smoke…

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Greg Says:
January 22nd, 2005 at 12:37pm
Love those photos. Just a shame about the barstards that go around lighting the fires

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