[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Powershadows [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] banj0 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Powershadows [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SatansReverence Just learned of a potentially dangerous grass fire less than 30 minutes from where I am in country Victoria.[/quote] ^Same here, except I'm in south-eastern New South Wales, and there's a catastrophic fire warning in my area. There's hundreds of fires of differing intensity across Australia, and there are about five or six highly catastrophic fires threatening various areas. For you Americans, here in Australia we're having the equal of what would be an extreme tornado outbreak with multiple EF5s, except instead of tornadoes it's bushfires. And it really is hell here - today it got to 42 degrees celcius, and I'm near the coast where we usually have cool, temperate days and relatively cold winters. [/quote] Where about?[/quote] I live in the Illawarra region, specifically to the south of Wollongong. We all received phone calls from the emergency services last night, and a warning of a "catastrophic fire" is in my area. There's a couple of strong fires south in the Nowra area, which I can smell the smoke from. And today it was hotter here than it was in the inland Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands, which was really odd, because we usually get a wonderful sea breeze down here that makes it relatively pleasant during hot days. Right now it feels like hell.[/quote] Sounds bad. I know a person in Campbelltown who told me it was pretty hot in the past day or two, and when I was down in Nowra it wasn't exactly cold.