Is there any news on Kato, believe he's part of the emergency services.

It was bad news about Tony and Cheryl's place just glad they weren't there.

Would be good to find out how every one else is faring.

Hope everyone else is ok

kato said...

I,m back and all in one piece. .

Great news there Craig

The work which you guys are doing over there is amazing and we feel for whats going on.

Hopefully there weren't any other sandy point villains affected

The fire on the Prom has flared up today in a major way with a strong easterly wind fanning it. Previously it burnt to the eastern shore of the Prom but now it is coming back across towards Waratah Bay and Sandy Point. Still 15 km or so away and if it keeps going east it is not so bad but if the wind swings a bit south east it will head straight for Sandy Point. We have the inlet as a fire break but I am most worried about embers jumping the inlet. That would be very serious indeed for the Sandy Point township but at the moment the probability of that seems reasonably low. We just don't want any really strong ESE wind (when did I ever wish that before? )

Maybe Kato has a better insight into what is happening as he is probably observing it up close.

Tom Chalko took some photos from his veranda this morning before it took off. This is from about 40km away. see here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mt.best.net/Promfire14Feb09?authkey=UkAAvfxLBjo#slideshow

Tom brought his sailing gear to my place for safekeeping a few days ago. Tonight he came and took it home again!!

This linked file opens in Google Earth but it is from early this morning I think:
rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=FAS_SEAustralia3.2009045.terra.721.250m.kmz

Just got back from the Prom and back down there tomorrow,sorry about the smoke.

Just a few flames during backburning


and a little smoke


Most of the work today was to steer the fire away from public land and keep it in the park. The next few days we,ll work on containing it,but it won,t be controlled untill we get a lot of rain. The fire is very unlikely to reach shallow inlet,but you could store all your gear at my place Daffy . Might even get a little wet

Thanks for the offer Craig. I might just take you up on that.
Good to hear your assessment that it is unlikely to reach Shallow Inlet though.

A last chance effort at stopping the fire from crossing the Prom road at Millars Rd
The small fire in front is the control burn, the one at the back is the wild fire. It did jump the control lines in the end, just too much East wind



My new favorite toy, just dial them up and they drop half an ocean on the spot fire. The problem is that everyone wants one



The Prom as I left it. Far dunes on the right is near Darby River.
Back there on Tuesday, the slow tour of Victoria continues

Probably the only time I wish for NO wind down there. Play it safe Kato.