Monday, January 17, 2005
There had been a massive bushfire in Perth, Western Australia, since Saturday arvo. It was believed to have been started in Fremantle & have moved to the hills, Pickering Brooks, which is on the other side of the hill behind our place... By Sunday arvo, the fires have moved on to the northern hills. The authorities believed 10 fires were lit by arsonists. By today, people from Armadale were voluntarily moving out of their houses when 2 houses were destroyed as the fires in the hills are proving to creep closer and closer into the residential areas. The skies are still sighting smoke clouds, and even the short thundery rain earlier couldn't ease the smouldering forests.
With the heat increasing on Saturday nite, we had the ducted airconditioning on... However, sometime in the middle of the nite, we had to switch it off & use the fans as the smell of smoke in the house was choking us! A glimpse out of the window showed everything blurry with the presence of smog. The next morning, we woke up to a white interior - everything in the house was covered in ashes that had been sucked in by the ducted AC. Outside, "snow" was sprinkling down... A couple of hours later, even burnt bark were floating down & covering our yards!!
Sometimes I wonder what kind of sick people there are out there!! It's not enough that people are dying in the wars, the tsunamis, the mudslides, they had to ignite the forests deliberately & thus killing animals & people along the way. I pray & hope that the authorities catch these people!! And I can just begin to imagine the duration they are going to spend in jail from the extent of lives & properties sacrificed in their sick hobby!! May God save their souls!
