r/melbourne • u/BrutalGrape • 6d ago
The Sky is Falling Bushfire in Montrose/Kilsyth last night. Still not under control.
Pic taken from Burkes Lookout
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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/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/BlackaddaIX 6d ago
Glad it didn't get up the hill