My suburb is pretty hilly and a bit like an amphitheatre open at the bottom, so that photo is from the other side looking down but I can't see it as I look the wrong way, but the house that photo would have been taken from is about the same distance as my house to the fires.
Tuesday night the fire in the photo covered 5,000 hectares and is now 19,000 hectares, I think it was 30km from my house in the photo and is now 20km based on how close it is to other places. So it seems to be getting larger at a more rapid rate than closer.
Listening to the radio to find out how close the fire are getting and whether to evacuate or not. I have backed up a lot of stuff from my computer onto an external drive, thrown some important papers in a box, a change of clothes in a bag, our wedding photos together with a couple of other photo albums and my two favourite guitars in my badly hail damaged car ready in case we have to go quickly. Just hoping the fires keep away.
