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I've always dreamed of visiting Australia. Last year I have finally saved money and bought my ticket. First the wild fires, then the floods, then covid. Cancelled my flight, lost my job and now I'm broke. I'll see you soon Australia.
If you don't want to endure the unbearably scorching heat, dont come during the summer in December, January and February. It's also when most of the bush fires happen
Was gonna say the same thing. Yup, its breaking through, the veil is thinning. I think we all know somewhere deep inside that the end is coming, and has been for a long time.
It's important to remember that you should NOT stay and defend your home if the wildfire is that close. Always evac to safety and have a plan before hand (and a backup plan if the main route of escape is blocked). A garden hose does not provide the pressure to knock out a fire like this, nor does turning on your sprinklers and wetting your house beforehand. The heat from wildfires is so strong that the water will instantly vaporize as soon as the front line of the fire hits your house. Prevention is always the best option - defensible space is key which you can see in the video helped some of the houses. Terracotta and metal roofs, along with the clearing of debris from gutters, will help with flying sparks. Please be safe and always listen to evac orders. Your lives are more important than your things.
I live in Portland, Oregon and a lot of these idiots don’t agree out here. They were blocking the road because they were convinced looters and Antifa was there but in reality they were harassing citizens with guns while they were dealing with possible death and home loss. Oh Republicans, when will you wiley little rascals learn?
i dont think you understand that some of these people who live in these rural areas have lived there for generations. and as aussies we wont go down without a fight.
Fire management is becoming more difficult every year as dry seasons grow longer and longer. Gotta stop denying the giant pile of evidence and ramp up efforts to reverse impacts as soon as possible or else we'll be fucked from ever getting back to the "good ol days". Also Lespecial crushed the background ambience. Check out their original music if you have the chance
I don’t think people understand how hot fires are when you drive next to them. I always saw these videos and thought “with AC in the car you wouldn’t feel it” but no. I drove about 2m from an explosion that was still on fire on a country road last summer and holy cow. My skin was BURNING. I can’t imagine what these guys went through
Being in Northern California, I can seriously sympathize and relate to the horrors of wildfires we have been plagued by fires the last 3 summers and falls Fall is our worst fire season in California 😥
I’m reading a lot of comments about people staying in their homes for too long.. The conditions were creating fire tornados, and would move kilometres in a matter of minutes. Skies would go yellow to black in 15 minutes. You were told that you weren’t in the path of the fire and then winds change and the fire will be at your doorstep in half an hour. When this happened the warnings given over the radio or online were “it’s too late to leave, seek shelter”. In order to be safe you would need to evacuate days earlier. But who would have known to do that.
Despite being fortunate enough to live in an area that was pretty safe from the fires, I had never been so terrified in my entire life. Seeing a great deal of my country consumed in a raging inferno for months is something I will likely never forget for the rest of my life.
We think we rule this world, that we are its natural masters. Mother nature is not quite done with us yet... Edit: The Australian government has the time to ban hentai but seems entirely incapable of talking about climate change, truly they have their priorities ordered correctly.
@@Acnologia.You might be not very educated on the topic but this was not energy weapons. Australia has always had devastating bushfires. Some bad some worse but CLIMATE CHANGE and climate change only helped the 2019/20 season smash records and environments.
the way it starts with "it's so hot that we just have to take a day of" to "I don't know if my house is still there or if anyone is dead" and it's all in a few hours
My brother is a paramedic here in Victoria, Australia. He had to take care of patients which were flown away from the fires (and onto military ships on sea) which had COMPLETELY engulfed the land. To this day, he still hasn't spoken about what he had seen.
I’ve lived through several of fires like theses living in Cali and now oregon and the moment something starts up I’m always on edge waiting for it to get out of control. There is a certain level of ptsd that occurs once you have been through one of these. You can’t help but be on edge at the slightest sign of it happening again.
As an Aussie, I still get flashbacks to last summer where I had no choice but to breathe in those hazardous levels of smoke for months on end. What a way to bring in a new year and decade right by breathing in levels of smoke beyond hazardous levels. I’m sure this will happen again due to climate change but I don’t when it will happen
It's good. For me personally though, I imagine the soundtrack for every one of these videos of people escaping from/driving through the wildfires as East Hastings from Godspeed You! Black Emperor
This is true reporting, as it should be. And even without the spin, its captivating, incredible and awe-inspiring! So sorry they all had to go through that and very grateful they all had the courage and presence of mind to film it.
@@UnconditionalLove777 They're direct result from climate change. Open your mind a little LOL. Climate change caused the water cycle to change its patterns causing an dryer regions in Australia which is the perfect place for wildfires. Climate change has everything to do with it tell me otherwise
Money and sentimental value probably. If you've paid for your home and live there years you dont want it to just burn down, even with insurance, its gonna cost you lots in excesses and premiums for years to come. They probably think their little garden hose might be enough to save them, most likely not.
Because of the conditions the fires moved faster than anyone expected, and many towns were already cut off. These people may have only been able to evacuate as far as the local footy oval, or the closest beach. Some people left towns only to be cut off by a different fire. My aunt spent 4 days camping on a beach because there's 2 roads into town which were cut off.
Yes, alot of rural farm's livestock weren't able to be evacuated in time and perished, cows, chickens, pigs etc. Also to note the native wildlife such as koalas, kangaroos, wombats, echidnas, couldnt be saved as there was no time and not enough manpower or safe places to go. Also alot of domestic pets and animals were lost for the same reasons, lots of horses were lost because the warning was too small for some owners to get a float and a safe place to take their horses, factoring in again, the people who HAD time to pack and leave backedup the tiny roads and because the fires tore through so quickly and furiously, many people and pets got stranded in cars and died. There was enormous loss in these fires
@ROE JOGAN DMT APOCALYPSE I'd already automatically included the humans in, mentally anyways. Humans _are_ animals, you know. Also, while I have no desire to be weighing lives, I find it hard to put a couple hundred humans about literal billions. Especially when I understand how important those lives are for our fragile ecosystem. Theoretically, the death of enough other species or the death of the right one can equal the extinction of humanity. Finally, don't belittle the lives of our distant cousins just because they're not human. I might save another human over others, but that's because I'm also human. It's not because their life was lesser. :\
Jesus. Aussie here. Heart racing and in tears after seeing this. I lived through these fires, and so so many more but they will never be easier to handle. Now summer is here again and I still nearly vomit from fear when I smell fire smoke or see a flame outdoors. I vividly remember the air so thick with smoke for months, even hours away air was so awful from the sheer amount that burnt, it's truly traumatizing to have seen all the death and destruction that was just last summer..fucking terrifying and now on really hot days when I go to sleep at night I just pray to get through til morning with nothing on fire.
I live in the Midwest in the U.S and our winters from my perspective have gotten shorter these past 8 years or so. When I was a child right around mid October there would be a good frost on my father's car windshield. Now it's around mid December that we even see a bit of frost if at all. Whom knows what's happening with the Earth's temps but something is definitely off these last 10 years or so.
The Aussie fires almost took out my home, there was ash and burned leaf litter falling from the sky. It looked apocalyptic. Thankfully the front was diverted by wind and our house is still standing. My heart goes out to all affected by the California and Australia fires.
My house I was staying at was never burnt but everyday the sky was red, it was dark light night sometimes during midday. The fires came up on the mountain and the ember barrage came. My friends homes burnt down. You look at the fire map on your phone, each day a fire became bigger or another one began. Nobody was safe and others couldn’t escape. I will never forget, now we are coming into the next summer
Well brush fires aren’t like hurricanes/typhoons where you can trade their paths...they had very strong winds that carried ambers to farther locations, probably to areas where they didn’t expect to burn. Which why they probably never evacuated, they mostly likely just sent out constant alerts and updates.
As a Californian who had been dealing with this type of stuff since I was born, fires don’t give you notice. I remember going into an hour long class and coming out to see a huge ball of smoke much like the ones in this video. If in the right condition (like it was in this video, 85 mph winds which helped embers to travel and spark new fires around the surround area) a catastrophic wildfire can happen in 30 minutes..
I try not to get choked up watching things like this, but it can't be helped. Like I owe it to the world to try and understand how hard some people have it. I'm thankful to be somewhere safe from fires... for now.
I don't understand why people wait so long to evacuate. I grew up in a place with a lot of brushfires, and we always evacuated hours before the fire arrived in our neighborhood. I don't get these people running out of houses that are literally on fire already. Or worse, standing on the porch with a hose while the house is surrounded by raging fire. No house is worth your life. Leave when they tell you and/or when you see that there is a fire in the area. Firefighters don't need to be spending their efforts rescuing individuals instead of fighting the fire. Also, LOL with the irony of the young woman at the end saying, "If you're from America, just research this, because Australia is literally on fire right now...This is a very real thing. It happens often here." Umm, maybe she should research America, because it has its own wildfire problem that "happens often" in basically all of the western states. California is on fire basically half the year now, and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes in America. Entire towns have been wiped out (like Paradise, CA, which killed 85 people- you can see the videos of people who were trapped and trying to flee right here on RU-vid.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-amUW2NrA9S8.html
genuine questions from a midwesterner whos never experienced this before: why didnt people evacuate when they first started seeing the heavier smoke near their homes? it seems like the people featured who did evacuate waited until the fires were literally right on them. is it because these fires travel so fast or did they just wait until the last minute? not shaming anyone, just trying to understand.
@@notrealy180217 no in total emission yes but in co2 emissions per capita china is no near to be close to the top. The highest are arab countries in the gulf and well, australia, canada and also the usa.
@@notrealy180217 Not only that the West also been exporting its industrial and residential waste to poor developing countries, and polluted the planet for over 2 hundred years before other countries start to industrialize. Western pollution is just better hidden.
The other day I decided to give a guy on the street my phone ($600) and a watch ($900). He was so happy; the amount of joy he felt was enough to make even the meanest person in the world feel greatful. This type of kindness is what the world needs. Help people out, give them faith to move on past there hard times. I'm also paying his monthly bill on the phone I gave him, and I'm also wiring him cash once a week to keep the new watch I gave him cleaned and tuned. Such a grateful person.. On the day I gave him the items, you could never imagine the happiness that I had felt when he put the gun down.
Good to see you have no knowledge of these bushfires in Australia other than watching this video. Otherwise you’d know that majority of people were forced to stay as their towns were already surrounded without warning.
As a Californian who had been dealing with this type of stuff since I was born, fires don’t give you notice. I remember going into an hour long class and coming out to see a huge ball of smoke much like the ones in this video. If in the right condition (like it was in this video, 85 mph winds which helped embers to travel and spark new fires around the surround area) a catastrophic wildfire can happen in 30 minutes. I hardly think they chose to stay home and for a lot of Australians there was no where to escape to. And especially if your a low income person staying and defending your home might be the only thing you can do in this circumstance.
I live in Medford, Oregon. This year changed how many I see fires after watching a wall of flame destroy the next town over and no idea if it’s going to stop. Praying for Australia ❤️
Because the agenda is to keep people distracted by the US "elections"... if people knew everything going on worldwide (40,000,000 people displaced in China as of 3 months ago from floods [could be hundreds of millions at this point], practically every country in Asia flooding, the other half of the world burning, supremely increased UFO sightings, the long-awaited shift in consciousness...), people would wake up and the people in power wouldn't have the upper hand anymore. They already lost anyways, it's only a matter of time. But things will get worse, they still haven't pulled their last cards.
@@UnconditionalLove777 dude, you act as if majority of people aren’t on social media, most people don’t need or rely on the news, plus they did air and talk about this, it was discussed all last summer!!!!
This is truly insane the hardest part about this is knowing my fiance and kids had to go through this alone I had to come back to the states to save money for the residency visa they went through this and then covid hit now with borders closed who knows when I can get back to them 😭. Thank god they were safe and still safe I pray for Australia and I honestly think of it as home already I cant wait to be apart of your great country.
wow thanks for the fire footage, hopefully no one was badly burned...for the ones who gave thumbs down hope yous feel better ............................ soon
@@jameslee5056 This isn't "climate denial". Firstly, the more we try to "fix" the climate, the worse we make it. Secondly, the crazy things happening worldwide are a result of a shift happening in the world. "climate change" is an oversimplification, people do this because they don't want to spend time looking into what's going on, they will just regurgitate what they were programmed to believe without a second thought. Open your mind if you want to learn.
@@UnconditionalLove777 Seriously? You think this is natural? It's not and we humans are exacerbating the situation. It's selfish idiots like you that are making the world this way. In saying this isn't denial you just contradicted yourself. You are a denialist.
@@aichabelle267 you misunderstood my point, and you're categorizing me with a group so you can justify your point. I never said it's natural, and I never said climate isn't real. I said this is a result of a shift happening in the world. It's deeper than "climate change", it's the result of greater forces at play.
Man that looks like an ocean of fire like waves come in and out like the tide. You have a lot of courage most people would’ve been so scared they would’ve just froze in place or scrambled off in whatever direction. You kept your cool 😎 under pressure 🤔and you gave the fire the old 😤🖕mates! ✌🏼
440 people died? 173 people died on Black Saturday in 2009 and that was the highest death toll Australia has seen directly related to bushfires. Now using your statistic I'm assuming you mean deaths caused by smoke-induced exacerbations. 34 souls, unfortunately, lost their lives from these fires, which is still an absolute tragedy. RIP.
I feel awful for these people because this is literally my nightmare but why do they wait so long to evacuate?! It seems like they don’t leave until the flames are right outside. If a wildfire was anywhere within like a 10 mile radius I’d be long gone.
@@maibster Not true. You have no idea how quickly our planet can recover once we are wiped out due to some reason like WW 3, asteroid impact, some serious virus or something.. Our plant will be ok after us. Don't worry...
living here in southern california i can remember the rain starting every year in the end of October.. for the last several years it has been late november and december
I was so relieved when I saw that all the people posting the videos made it out alive. So many people didn't. I was so scared that we would see text explaining that these were the last videos of these people alive. May God have mercy.
Im so confused why these people could see the fires coming, were talking about how they were scared and then just….didnt do anything and stayed right where they were? Like what did they expect to happen? “I’m scared now.” okay then like EVACUATE!
Yeah, I have never seen a large wildfire in my life even though I live near a lot of them but it doesn't take a genius to realize that a lot of these people aren't too bright. Maybe they just froze up because that's a horrifying experience
I was caught up in this and it’s not that easy, it was the 23rd of December i lived in a town called South Durras north of Batemans bay I was prepared to leave at 7 o’clock the next day as the fires we’re north of the Town and on the south towards Batemans Bay and west Near benandarah the RFS advised that we leave by Thursday (boxing day) I had packed my Ute and trailer about a week before in advance since I knew that it was a matter of time before the wind picked up again, so I made sure I had plenty of water, and had 2 cans of petrol and other essentials like food. When I woke up at the next day the first thing I did was check my phone like I always did and the advice from the RFS had changed from leave by Thursday to, ‘it’s too late to Leave,’ it turns out over night the fire up north had jumped the lake and the front had traveled 5km over night cutting off Durras drive which is the only way to get in and out of the town, at around 8 o’clock the power went out as the fire cut off the high voltage lines from Batemans Bay, at that point I got in my ute and drove onto south Durras beach and drove up to the north side of Durras which had no road access from south Durras but the beach carries up the coast with the entrance to Durras lake being separated from the sea by a sand bank, I drove up to north Durras to my mums place where i made sure the house was as safe as it could be from the fire, I then went back down to the beach where everyone camped for the next two days the rfs were legends, they had helicopters and planes firebombing 24/7, New Year’s Eve was the worst day of the my life, the fire had jumped containment lines fueled by 46°c Heat and wind at 9:30 that day the sky went blood red and from there all hell let loose. at around 11:00 is when the fire hit south Durras, people on the beach said they’ve never seen flames so high before saying they we’re upwards of 70-80m high (in well excess of the trees) we lost nearly half of the infrastructure in South Durras, we were finally evacuated via boat on the 4th of January by the Australian defence force, when i finally got back to my property a week later it was nothing but melted metal, there was nothing left standing. After that I decided that I’d move up north, my mum stayed and I visit her about twice a year, I now live in Kiama near Wollongong.
The high death count does not surprise me when you see people in these videos surrounded by fire and thinking a garden hose is going to do anything. Things can be replaced! Get the heck out of there.
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