10-01-13 18:00:42 BURN INFO: NOT MUCH WIND NOT TOO HOT! SO WE WILL COMPLETE THE BURN AT 25 MT OSMOND TONIGHT. TRUCKS LEAVE 19;15 APOLOGIES TO CAPT'*****OR STATION. DAVID - CFS Burnside Info
Middle of January and TFB tommorow in MLR... when is enough enough? Surely we are just burning off for the sake of seeing flames by now. All meaningful fuel reduction should be well and truly completed.
with 6-8 weeks of fire weather still likely, then its not out of the ordinary to do some defensive fuel reduction particularly around important assets or in particularly dangerous areas if you havent managed to get it done so far. God knows in their (and our) area theres so much to be done and only a few real days to get it finished
Having said that, given the forecast for tomorrow,the SEVERE category rating and TFB I'm not sure its prudent to be doing this tonight with 30-40/gusting 50 kph winds forecast in the morning. Great scope to filtered it up and look like a prat in the paper. The Burnside boys aren't yokels who do this twice a year, so I guess this will be fine.....just higher risk I guess
I guess any Strike Team calls will be paid in Milky Bars
No doubt about the fact that they are a brigade that is very experienced with fuel reduction burns. My main concern is time of year, predicted weather etc.
I also feel that the community would be getting very mixed messages.... The CFS [state] and medcia are bashing the fact that its a TFB, prepare your Bushfire Action Plan, etc and yet their local brigade goes out and lights up a paddock for training?
Only my two cents anyway. Im sure all will work out to be fine.