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A year ago I have blogged on the Tathra bush fires needs Royal Commission and there is a link there to –
Why not the RAAF to operate large air tankers?
Warwick, your email addresses have been bouncing for several weeks. Sorry to use your post forum and you might wish to delete this comment, but it’s the only avenue of contact I know of.
This article from Quadrant about 3 weeks ago is quite relevant:
quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/02/bushfire-management-wisdom-versus-folly/
Just got this emailed in from a reader.
While guilty party Green/Left politicians and their puppet master fire agency appointees make all kinds of excuses, the impending danger of rising fuel loads is something that old-hand CFA fire fighters and experienced forest manages have been warning about of for a number of years. Neglect of essential fuel reduction burning based on flawed Green/Left ideologically blinkered, forest management notions was always going to make bush fires much worse than they need be. No matter how large and expensive the Victorian fire fighting airforce becomes it will never be the answer, there is no substitute for sound forest management practices.
Cheers
Just to make it clear – I have never thought of large aircraft as a substitute for cool season hazard reduction burns.
I just think the RAAF would administer and use large aircraft better than the existing system.
If anybody can find a chart of the annual area of hazard reduction burns since say Black Saturday – please pass on a link or info.
The winery owner who has been burnt out says: “I’ve been begging them [Forest Fire Management Victoria] for 20 years to burn off the state forest at the back of our place and still to this day it hasn’t happened.”
Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville says burning off would not have stopped the Bunyip fire. “The intensity of this fire was enormous — no planned burn would have made a difference here,” she said.
How does Ms Neville think the fire became so intense? Did it just land from another planet howling with hundred-foot flames or did it perhaps become so intense because the land had never been back-burned and was choked to the gills with bone-dry dead wood and dense undergrowth?
BTW it’s the same in America. Did anyone see Trump last week reporting on his phone chat with the Governor of California? Yes, even a dummy like Trump knows that if you don’t clear up forests from time to time you get terrible fires:
youtu.be/3I9J9IaZC7o?t=3326
This really is the issue. It doesn’t make any difference what firefighting resources you have, if the fuel levels are too high there are always times when those resources (including aerial) can not be directly deployed. There are times that the aircraft can not see where to drop because of smoke, and times when they do drop that it makes no discernible difference to fire behaviour.
I worked in fire surveillance in SW WA for 18 years. When a fire was detected one of the first things that was done (after alerting appropriate agencies and crews) was check the fuel age map. If the fuel age was high, then the incident controller needed to plan a strategy that would keep his crews and fire fighting implements safe, while maximising the effectiveness of their use.
While it is possible for fire to be uncontrollable in relatively low fuels on days of extreme weather conditions, it is almost always controllable at night if the fuel level is low.
The apponents of hazard reduction burning (prescribed burning herein WA) are skilled at misinforming the media and the public. They will consistently report the exception as the rule and the rule as the exception. An example of that was the fire that destroyed the town of Yarloop in the SW of WA a few years back. It resulted in two deaths, one a Vietnam veteran. The greens reported correctly that there had been prescribed burning carried out in the area and that prescribed burning was not the answer. The truth was that the fire could only be, and only was contained at the boundaries of those previously burnt areas, and because of those previously burnt areas. It was the longer un-burnt areas that led to Yarloop’s demise.
No need to guess which version got most prominence in the media.
My understanding, this year fuel reduction burns in Victoria have been done on only 1% of public land compared with 2009 Black Saturday Bushfire Royal Commission recommendation that 5% of land should undergo fuel reduction burning every year.
In Victoria the cost of this Labor/Green promoted neglect is obvious, forest management experts of the Bushfire Front, referred to on the JoNova blog have demonstrated the folly of pandering to the Green lobby in WA when decades of accumulated forest management knowledge was tossed out the window!