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so....we've got quite a few forest fires burnin' up here in B.C.

thought i'd share some pix with ya'.

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couple more

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http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0agDLA...34785598115205

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and no i didn't take these....they we're sent to me

enjoy

wow!

I was just about to say that you should be high-tailing your ass outta there ... Nice pictures ... Crazy how it can spread so quickly if given the chance.

Those pictures are awesome!

At first glance, the first picture you posted looks like a painting of a plane going down! Upon further inspection though, I realized what it was...thats a great photo!

those pictures are better than what you see on the news!

yup...the fires are rippin' it up in B.C.

not a good thing....alot of homeless people out there.

i hope they're okay.

Wow, great pictures, I especially like number 1, 5 & 6.

great pictures.

but its such a shame that the fires are so destructive.

i´m from Sydney, so i know just how big bushfires affect you. and my heart goes out to all of those affected.

Australian bush needs the fire to regenerate, so in a (harsh) way, the fires are necessary. but how do these fires affect the beautiful BC wilderness?

I have a friend who lives in Alberta, he's been telling me how bad its been out there. Hope you guys get rain soon...

Those are just spectacular pictures. The two with the plane are my favorites. That second helicopter one is cool too.

Hopefully those fires will be out soon.

Those are pretty amazing - thanks for sharing them! I hope things blow over soon.

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On the subject of bushfires, these are a few pictures from the fires that hit here back in january. They took out something like ~300 houses within about a 3KM radius of where I live. Left me without power for ~4 days.

http://members.datafast.net.au/exces...os/28duffy.jpg
http://members.datafast.net.au/exces...ore_4.51pm.JPG

The second one gives you an idea as to just how much smoke was around at the time.

More images avaliable at:
http://canberrafires.xsnet.org/galleries.html

Edit: gah, fixed the "more images" url.

Sux to be living on one of those hills.

flyman, your signiature line looks a bit tasteless under those photos...

Dave, you were in those fires? That was some scary shit, even from over here in Perth!

There were about 5 houses lost at the other end of my street. I guess we should just feel lucky that more people didn't die at the time (I believe the final total was 3).

poor forest

great pic's, the shots with airplanes/choppers look like they're from gta vice city. :D

I was watching those bombers filling up in Christina Lake this weekend. Pretty cool to see a plane filling with water at 50-70kph as it roars down the lake. I have never seen as many bombers flying in and out of the Castlegar tanker base as there are right now.

very cool pictures. Awesome to see that in action.

hope you and yours are safe

i saw a tv show about those guys, they work hard to put those fires out.

the choper in pic 6 with the long lanyard....refilled a few times in our lake will i was on vacation.

every morn' at 7:30-8ish he'd head out to the fires,and at night...same time.....12 hr. shifts i guess......he'd fly home.

he grabbed water on his way out three or four times...just for extra i guess.

he only did it in the morn so i figure they were pluckin' out of a diff lake.

still burnin' up there too.

i never thought of that.....no harm done by what i light though.

cigs and roaches in the ashtray:D

thank you....

we only had smoke while away....one day was like suckin' on someones second hand smoke all day.....just nasty...

*i gotta quit fuckin' smoking*

Low growing brush needs to be cleared out so that the big trees can thrive. The underbrush can choke out the saplings. California has discovered that by strict fire prevention they've severely damaged the Sequoia (sp?) forests. Seems the seed pods need heat to open and germinate. Sad as it looks, some fires are neccessary. Damn shame about the human loss, though.

(grumpy watches PBS;) )

thats killer man...im up here in alberta...we never get fire like those but we get a few good in size too.

Forest fires are kinda like nature's forest enema. Unfortunately, people and/or houses sometimes are in the wrong place at the wrong time...

here's some shots of the fire in Kelowna

(and again....i did not take the pics)


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ya' it's getting fuckin' worse here now.no rain in sight.
everything is burnin' up.

The weather down here at present indicates a very harsh summer ahead.
We have not had enough rain this winter to get us through and it is painful that despite past history there is still no fucking planning by those that are there to do so.
We can only wait and hope that lessons have finally been learnt.