The fires are close to where I am,in a valley there is one just cresting a hill about 10K's North and one on another ridge about 10-15 K's west of us, the wind is pretty favourable at the moment so with any luck the house will survive.

The biggest trouble is I am 2000 miles away on the other side of Australia working on a gas pipeline, and I'm not gonna fly out untill Monday night. My dad does some waste removal work for a local council, and went into barricaded off areas. He said that they still had bodies under houses, and the cars in which people died in were just starting to be moved away now, and blue body bags were everywhere.

Steve