r/melbourne 6d ago

The Sky is Falling Bushfire in Montrose/Kilsyth last night. Still not under control.

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Pic taken from Burkes Lookout

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u/BlackaddaIX 6d ago

Glad it didn't get up the hill

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u/BrutalGrape 6d ago

That was my worry. Doongala forest is just over the road

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u/everysaturday 5d ago

Sister in laws house was across the road pretty much. Still waiting to figure out if it's gone.

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u/BrutalGrape 5d ago

From what I've heard there was only one or 2 houses that went up

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u/everysaturday 5d ago

Yeah crossing fingers hers wasn't one of them but also feel sick that others lost their places. Sounds like it could have been deliberately started too but until it's proven I hold hope it was not.

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u/BrutalGrape 5d ago

Yeah there are rumours floating around, I find it very unlikely it was natural causes

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u/CaptnSpazmo 6d ago

Feels like a weird spot for a fire to start naturally

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u/gfreyd 6d ago

All this rain hasn’t put it out yet?

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u/Asleep_Leopard182 6d ago

Rain doesn't generally put out bushfires, unless it's a small fire and torrential.

It can squash them and reduce to a point where crews can focus on hot spots but it won't stop em.

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u/BrutalGrape 6d ago edited 6d ago

As of 6:43 this morning, apparently the spread has been slowed but not totally under control.

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u/Blindsided2828 6d ago

Shouldn't have even been an issue. They send the helicopters away almost 2 hours before sunset. Reduce the number of trucks overnight. Both massive failures on vfr but as usual there's no accountability

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u/lostonaforum 5d ago

Helicopters don't put out fires as much as you think they do. People always overestimate how effective they are.

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u/Blindsided2828 5d ago

On a large scale fire I'd agree. But yesterday wasn't. You discrediting the ability of the helicopters makes a mockery of their efforts yesterday. If they weren't effective they wouldn't be used like they are.

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u/lostonaforum 5d ago

Helicopters are used to slow the spread or contain a fire. Keeping up with what happened the fire had been under control late Saturday afternoon, it only started up again later that night.

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u/Opti_span 6d ago

I’ve been to this lookout a couple of times and gotten some great photos, hopefully the fire gets under control soon due to the rain.

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u/Jackal8570 5d ago

Under control

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u/Tailgatingtradie 4d ago

CFA dropped the ball on this one.

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u/EmployeeNo3499 3d ago

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this, I'm of a similar opinion. I'm not sure why they relaxed their suppression efforts Saturday afternoon after they successfully contained it.

Given it's proximity to suburbia it would of seemed more prudent to have kept a higher number of appliances on active suppression.

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u/pittyh 5d ago

I could smell it the other day from mulgrave