Fires

[Road_Warrior]

Originally Posted by MarkAW

The technology is already available in the market place, roof sprinklers to draw from your swimming pool, just add a petrol/diesel pump. Its not that big a deal and neither is getting it serviced once a year. Steel mesh shutters for your windows and doors - you only hang them when a fire is in the vicinity. Use the heavy duty aluminium sarking under the roof tiles or zincalum roofs to seal the roof space and seal the eaves where the gutters join the roof.

When the big fire in Victoria occurred, I remember a guy on LS1.com.au saying his petrol powered water pump was useless because the intensity of the fire simply sucked all the oxygen out of the air around the house (and this was when the front was still 100m from his house I think he said) and the little engine simply couldn't run.

From memory he lost everything in that fire.

On the subject of controlled burns/back burning, in Wait Awhile they're usually pretty good with it but there have been 2 high profile examples of the Department of Environment stuffing them up and it got out of control, causing huge fires and property loss.