G'day Steve,

John is in South Aust. and at this stage I don't know of any fires in his district. He sometimes goes offline for awhile at a time and, like me, is probably harvesting winegrapes atm.

I'm a couple of hundred km's north of the fires and safe but my thoughts are with the people in trouble. My cousin lives at Kinglake (one of the bad spots) and apart from losing her woodshed and chook shed she is ok. One of her neighbors was Brian Naylor, ex news reader that tragically lost his life along with his wife.

My thoughts to one and all.

Cheers,
Mark.