Serves me right for doing music instead of keeping ScopeRise updated
Fires haven't impacted us here directly in Melbourne except a couple of hazy days. Last Friday I came to work at 6:30AM and the air was clean. By 10:30 I went out for brunch and could smell the smoke and see the haze - as could my mrs at home 30 KM away.
Of course there's friction between the military, fire brigades and politicians while they sort themselves out whose supposed to do what. I have family in a small coastal town top of NSW, but there's little no bushland and water close by in the unlikely event my mother got evacuated from the aged home there
But yeah a lot of population down east coast have copped it and spitting on visiting politicians and usual climate change blame game. Greens are on the backfoot now due to their bushland preservation and grazing restrictions causing an increase in combustable fuel.