Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bush Fires still burning near Melbourne

Here is a picture of a fire-fighter giving a poor Koala some water. Not only are people vicitms of these bush fires.
There have been terrible bush fires near Melbourne recently, there are three of them still burning at the moment. People have actually been lighting bush fires! I have no idea why people would do that! The link below gives you some more information about the situation.




Just for your information in Australia bush fires are quite common in the countryside during Summer, Australia is a hot and dry country and there are a lot of empty places where a fire could start up and not been found out about until it is quite big. Even when they aren't lit by people, we call people who light fires "firebugs", they can still start naturally in such hot weather.

2 comments:

  1. it really sad wats happend and happening i am only ten and feel realy sad i made a poem at school about the fires and this how it goes
    Bush burning
    Unfound people
    Staying to fight or leaving early
    Houses burnt

    Family and loved ones lost
    Incredable conditions
    Rescueing people
    Escaping the flames

    we should all help the people who have lost family loved ones and houses

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  2. I really like the poem that you write, and it is nice of you to share it with us, yes indeed what is happening is quite sad, life isn't always as nice as we would hope it to be!

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