Bush Fires
The night before last, we woke up to the roar and crackle of a fire in the bush about 500 meters from the house we were staying at. We all jumped out of bed and hurried to the verandah to see what was going on. The bush was blazing with flames 3 or 4 meters high as the grass trees went up. After a couple of minutes we were reassured to see a truck from the local fire brigade in attendance. Turns out this line of fire was an emergency back-burn, being put in to protect us from a fire that had ...