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  Victoria : les parcs du Gippsland dévastés par les incendies
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Victoria : les parcs du Gippsland dévastés par les incendies.

The Age a écrit :
Gippsland towns brace for flames
By Dan Oakes and Dan Harrison
The Age


TWO small towns in northern Gippsland were waiting nervously last night as changing weather conditions pushed a massive bushfire towards them.

The development came as 52 firefighters, including specialist rappellers, arrived from Canada to reinforce the 2400 personnel fighting fires that have burnt out almost a million hectares.

Tambo Crossing and Ensay were expected to come under ember attack last night and the Great Alpine Road was expected to be cut as the wind swung around to the south-west.

Further south, the town of Bruthen, which had been preparing to fight the fire, was spared by the wind change.

Tambo Crossing residents were bracing themselves for a sleepless night as winds gusting up to 90 km/h drove the so-called Great Divide South fire towards them.

About 80 firefighters and 20 trucks were stationed in the community last night to protect its 10 households, as the blaze came within five kilometres of private property.

"The pressure is really going to be on that Tambo Crossing area. We're quite sure the fire will impact on Tambo Crossing," deputy incident controller Mark Reid said last night.

"It won't be the sort of fire where we'll be able to do much direct attack. There'll be sparks and embers and flames all over the place."

Gale force south-westerly winds are driving the main fire north-east into bushland not burned in the 2003 fires. The strong winds last night were preventing fire services from using aircraft to attack the blaze.

The owner of the Ensay general store, Rick Gardam, said the townspeople were battening down the hatches ahead of the expected ember attack.

"We're just getting prepared because there's a lot of open area, and a lot of spot fires could start up because of the dry grass," he said.

"I'm on the roof of my shop now washing down all the gutters, and the hose reaches to the whole perimeter so I'm thinking that's good.

"I can smell smoke now and I haven't been able to smell smoke all morning, and I can smell sea breeze" — a sign to Mr Gardam that fire was coming.

He said most townspeople had elected to stay and fight the flames, which have been menacing the town for weeks without actually approaching it.

"There's only a couple of the elderly that have left," he said. "There are more firefighting units, they've got water-storage units across the road from the shop. The Little River, which is across the road from us, is still running, so they can pick up water from there.

"It's been like this for over a month or more now. We've just been watching it go this way, that way, smoke coming from this angle, that angle. Last night, the whole sky from us pointing towards Bairnsdale was just a red glow. The reflection of the fire on the clouds, it looked like the southern aurora."

Mr Gardam also runs a towing business and he said he had been busy in that capacity over the previous two days as motorists avoided the Great Alpine Road by taking back roads, some of them little more than bush tracks.

About 300 firefighters have been deployed in the Tambo and Omeo valleys to defend private property and prepare for extreme conditions later this week.

The other fire of concern is the 2000-hectare Boulder Creek blaze, further to the east, which has escaped control lines in some spots. Department of Sustainability and Environment spokesman Stuart Ord said that firefighters might have to control the blaze using back-burning.

While the threat to Bruthen has now eased, the local firefighters are not yet ready to celebrate.

"You'll be able to write about this one until the end of March," said Will Waller, deputy group officer of Bairnsdale CFA, who fought the 2003 fires also.

"Six inches of rain or the Bass Strait — that's the only way you'll stop this bastard," he said.

"What it didn't get in 2003, it's having another go at now."

Source : http://www.theage.com.au


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Send 'er down, Huey! [expression familière aussie]

Que ça mouille à éteindre l'Enfer !! :x

Je me rends toujours compte de la veine que nous, on a de vivre dans le Gippsland de l'ouest, surtout dans le 'Marais" (the Swamp region). Ici n'arrive pas à en piger le danger/ la menace. N'oubions pas de remercier les pompiers d'outre-mer qui sont venus ici pour combattre les incendies, le plus dernièrement les pompiers canadiens de la British Columbia. Tout cela en indique la sévérité.


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Hier soir j'ai vu une emission TV sur les feux de bush en Australie et j'ai appris bcp de choses, notamment sur les "orages secs".

C'est ou au fait les Gippsland exactement?

Ca fait plutot peur ces feux. J'ai presque envie de me trouver un autre endroit que Sydney maintenant, car d'apres l'emission un jour il y aura "The Big One" (un peu comme en Californie pour le gros tremblement de terre attendu dans les prochaines annees).


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Le feu cesse de progresser dans le Sud-Est du Victoria.

News Network a écrit :
Fire threat diminishes after front

A SOUTHERLY wind change today has helped ease the fire threat in Victoria's southeast, but property owners have begun counting the cost in stock losses.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) said the change that moved through Gippsland this afternoon had reduced the threat to Heyfield.

DSE incident controller Peter Lockwood said the threat to private property in the area had now diminished.

The wind change has reduced the fire threat for Heyfield residents, but the fire was still active on private land around Tambo Crossing, north of Bruthen.

Embers spread over 10 kilometres causing fires to spot into private land around the township, Mr Lockwood said.

DSE said stock and pasture had been lost at Tambo Crossing, and property owners were now calculating their losses.

Fire crews were also assessing the impact of dozens of breakaway fires which started this afternoon.

New spot fires began today in forested area to the south-east of Tambo Crossing, but the DSE said they were in rugged terrain and did not pose a threat to communities.

Spot fires have burnt approximately 300 hectares of private land at Seaton and 350 hectares at Blanket Hill north of Glenmaggie.

A blaze in the Framlingham forest, east of Warrnambool in the state's south-west, was still burning.

The cooler conditions have helped firefighters consolidate containment lines on the north-eastern and south-eastern flanks.

The fire has burnt 1500 hectares of bush and grassland.

Source : http://www.news.com.au


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Océanie News a écrit :
Australie : environnement et feux
Feux de brousse dans le Sud-Est de l’Australie : coupures de courant.


MELBOURNE, 16 janvier 2007 – Les feux de brousse qui continuent à ravager État australien du Victoria (Sud-Est du pays) ont causé, mardi, de multiples interruptions des réseaux électriques, privant ainsi environ deux cent mille foyers d’électricité. Ces feux, qui touchent principalement la partie Nord-Est de cet État, ont détruit et fondu plusieurs câbles alimentant toute la région.

Ces interruptions ont aussi eu d’importantes répercussions sur les axes routiers et systèmes de transport en commun de la capitale de cet État, Melbourne, où se déroule cette semaine l’annuel Open international de tennis.

Certains de ces feux, contre lesquels les équipes de pompiers luttent toujours, auraient été déclenchés par la foudre, par des températures dépassant cette semaine les 40 degrés Celsius.

Depuis le début de la saison chaude, les feux de brousse ont détruit un total de superficie estimé à 1,1 million d’hectares dans le seul État du Victoria.

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