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LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Did everyone forget how Australia was entirely on fire a few years back?
On one of the commercial news channels the other morning, some yank talking head they had on for whatever reason said "I'm not sure how familiar you are in Australia with wild fires" as part of the introduction...
The fires mostly missed the major cities. Although dealing with hazardous levels of smoke for much of that period is not nothing.
Canberra doesn’t count because there are only Politicians there.
Half of it burned in 2003 anyways. And unfortunatly parliamentary triangle doesnt have any water restrictions during droughts so its not dry.
We use the outer suburbs as a fire break. No trees left to burn there. Just roof and road.
You think modern houses — more glue and plastic than solid timber — aren't going to explode into flames? Modern suburbs are tinderboxes.
I can see this being picked up by the right as an argument against walkable urbanism (“all that density is a deathtrap!”) and in favour of the car-dependent quarter-acre-block sprawl that is Our Sacred Way Of Life.
In reality, the thin boundary between forested country and built-up areas is the problem. A solution would be to have farmland as a buffer around the cities, as pastures and fields of crops don’t burn as well as either.
It the people of officer could read they'd be very VERY upset right now.
Sad but true.
If a suburb has older housing stock with older gardens, for instance, it’s absolutely ripe for a fire to spread quickly. If you have more modern housing stock (which is usually better at defending against ember attack), and the houses are more spaced apart and the gardens are clearer, then you might be OK.
ok but what if we have "more modern housing stock" clad in flammable material and clustered together up each others arses cheek to jowl and excuse me, 1666 London is calling....
we have pledged net zero fire by 2050, nothing to worry about.
I don't hold a hose, mate.
Just tow the fire out of the environment.
Same way we cope every year our country burns...
Well yeah, it happened in 2019. Pretty sure the bushfires started in August
Every city makes a fire break around the whole city.
Build more moats!
Just move away from the fire zones? It’s like building sand castles among the reefs at low tide.
Poorly. Very poorly.