Black Saturday Bushfires St Andrews Vic Australia

My Brother Jim filmed this never to be seen title wave of fire on the 7th Feb 09 before escaping from certain death to his home built bunker, louieb

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[louieb01]

This is History and we learn from History

[nickc0586]

by the looks of things, you've filmed the initial northerly fueled fire that shot across 45ks like an arrow. then just before you stopped filming, you got some burnt material falling on your lawn, as though the wind was beginning to swing to the SE.

i assume the wind blew the fire across and towards you after this?

I'd like to use this footage in Wikipedia, it's a free encyclopedia that anyone can read and contribute to. You should also give the CFA, DSE & DHS a call & show it to them :]

[CBRSIXPACK]

Intense! Amazing footage,the wind was un -stopable on that fateful day.

[Ant8071]

What is so incredible about that day is how fast the fire travelled but also the intensity, this was like 100 times worse than your average bush fire, just look at the height of the flames it looks like a massive nuclear bomb, nothing could stop this fire. And it was such a hot and windy day, i hope we dont see these conditions again for a while!

[ArizonaChris96]

Holy Shit Indeed! Extremely tragic and very sicking.. Beautiful scenery gone, peoples homes and lives lost, sorry for loss.. My thoughts are with the people of Australia

[gaming0wiz]

1:22 .. my god, if i saw anything like that, i would be horrified, you did a great job holding your self together! wish i could have that ability if i ever needed it

[tcla1]

Very late remberance for ALL our local friends who werent as fortunate as Jim.

Jim didn't post the vid, hence why no replies...

Yes he survived as he is a Very smart , switched on guy who survived by going to his home made bunker ..half built into the hill just above the house.Dr.tolhurst.. Leading expert on black sat Cant explain why jims house was saved. i know the place intimately that Was the first front , it created its own wind and a sw change TOTALLY sent it mental.IN Unedited version!!!!

[batmanmick]

Some of the most poignant footage I've seen. Shows just how fast the fire can escalate. Don't know about heroes but you sure were lucky.

[gfanarakos]

at the final moment before you left the fire started spotting 20 meters ahead and the main front was about 200 meters around you .. reminds me 2007 in Greece in Zacharo where similar effects were happening... in one week only in Elia - including Olympia in Greece 1.100.000 acres were burned 48 people died 2 villages were wiped out and many others suffered great damage daylight became night, smoke reached south Africa. That year 3.000.000 acres burned in Greece and 80 people lost

[gfanarakos]

at the final moment before you left the fire started spotting 20 meters ahead and the main front was about 200 meters around you .. reminds me 2007 in Greece in Zacharo where similar effects were happening... in one week only in Elia perfecture -including Olympia in Greece 1.100.000 acres were burned 48 people died 2 villages were wiped out and many others suffered great damage daylight became night, smoke reached south africa. That year 3.000.000 acres burned in greece and 80 people lost

[gfanarakos]

at the final moment before you left the fire started spotting 20 metres ahead and the main front was about 200 metres around you .. reminds me 2007 in Greece in Zacharo where similar effects were happening... in one week only in Elia perfecture - Greece 1.100.000 acres were burned 48 people died 2 villages were wiped out and many others suffered great damage daylight became night, smoke reached south africa. That year 3.000.000 acres burned in greece and 80 people lost

[DevonCousin]

wtf were you doing there!