Thanks everyone for your thoughts.
I am fine where I live, since Christmas Day, we have had close to 12 inches of rain, so nice and green, but still rather hot. Unfortunately for a large part of the rest of the country, it’s very dry and very hot.
Previously it was common practice to burn off sections of the bush in the cooler months, to reduce the amount of fuel on the ground ( dead grass, leaves, branches etc ) but now the green factor has stopped this practice, creating fire hazards all over the country, many farmers are not even allowed to push fire breaks around their properties. Now when the bush does burn in the hottest times, there is total devastation.
I have heard of one farmer that was allowed to push a 3 meter (10 foot) wide fire break, his bulldozer had a 4 meter wide blade, so that’s what he pushed. He was given a huge fine, I recall in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is what we are up against. I don’t want to get into politics here, so I will leave it at that.
Scott and Kevin are both in the Perth area of West Australia, southern end of the west coast, I am sure they will be ok over there. I am just above the Tropic of Capricorn on the East coast, nearly all of the fires have been well to the south of me.
Many places are going to take a very long time to recover, unfortunately Rainforest doesn’t recover well from fire, so some places may never be the same again.