 I do want to start though and be remiss of me not to recognize that today is in many ways for many Victorians a day of remembrance. It is today in 2009 that we here in Victoria lost 173 people on that day and I flagged you many others have lost their life since then that are directly associated with that life, with that fire having taken their own life or injuries as a result. I deliberately put some slides up here to remind us of that day as a reminder that there was 173 people killed on the day. Over 400 people were injured on that day. Over 2,000 homes were destroyed and if you into figures over 4,500 square kilometers of ground if you like was burnt on that particular day. What people do forget I think at times like this is that there were 350 people or people Victorians, people love ones if you like, that died proceeding just before the fires as a result of the heat wave. And I say that in the context that people were in the middle of a heat wave. Victorians are currently dying at the moment because of heat waves and I ask you and I reinforce this at the end to think about that with your loved ones now. Are your family well, are they hydrated, are they safe from the heat which is just as much of a killer in our environment as is the fires. Where are we at the moment, so the first pit of this presentation I want to go through is what's actually happening in the state at the moment. We have 11 going fires. There are parks that are closed to the public as we speak. For safety purposes many of the parks are either completely closed or partially closed across the state going on. Basically at the moment we have 384 depi people, 80 CFA and 75 as we speak at the moment people on the fires and 11 tankers, 23 days, there's 135 slip-ons and 24 aircraft. Many of the fires and I'll go through some of those at the moment that are currently going are inaccessible area that is in almost remote country. So up in the Mali at the moment we've got 109,000 hectare which is a pretty bloody big fire if you don't mind me saying up in that northern part of the state. Interesting enough those fires have been going for some time and we've pretty well tracked those and we can give you some more details on those as we go through. So they're well tracked. If you have a look a bit further south you've got the Grampians fire. High impact causes a lot of concerns. Probably the first time in Victoria we've actually done an evacuation order into that particular community into Hall's Gap where we actually evacuated. In fact I'd go further and say it's probably the first time we've done it in Australia that we've actually pulled that trigger on evacuation and we did that in the Grampians and again that's 55 hectares. There's still some hot spots in there but interesting enough the Grampians I think have got a folk festival or a jazz festival or some sort of festival on this weekend. So we're trying to balance this approach where they're open for business in Grampians. We don't want them to go bust against making sure that everybody's safe. So we're saying now it's safe it's happy to return to the Grampians but we're keeping a watchful eye on it. We have got crews there. We are continuing to patrol both those fires. This is where the problem is people and the problem that sits here for us at the moment. And you'll see that it's all pretty well focused in one part of the state, that far eastern part of the state. What happened while in fact we've had two lots of lightning go through this particular area which is fantastic. It goes through usually on the change at about five o'clock. Lightning happens everywhere. If we get a chance we put aircraft off but effectively it has that nighttime opportunity to burn before we can get an aircraft up over it. Early in the morning to have a look to see what smokes actually started. So we go up the next day, oh my goodness there's another smoke sighting. We need to get onto it really really quickly. So what we'll do is we'll send out our Victorian remote firefighters in. The New Zealanders, the New South Wales, we get the helicopters, we walk them in and down they go where it's safe and we get them to cut in a line where they can. Most of these fires and I want to go through the three complexes and you can see yourself. You don't have to be a firefighter to see what the concern is. They're three major complexes at the moment. The problem is them joining up. If these fires start to slowly or join up we start to move into campaign type firefighting. We're almost there now and with what's about to occur on the weekend we suspect that that's the environment we're about to work into. So let's have a look at the three complexes. I want to draw your attention to the Snowy River Cluster, the Goonger Custer and the Club Terrace Cluster. And interesting enough we've now got two new fires that have just started. Only small, Davey's playing Kings, playing Track, only five hectares and Chandler's Creek Fire which is only 23 hectares. In their own they say well they're only pretty small, they're inaccessible. We can't get to them at the moment and they will cause us concern. Potential concern for us are new fires that have just come up yesterday on the horizon when lightning went through. So let's go through, Lauren, if we wouldn't have a look at the Snowy River Cluster. And again from a proximity point of view, here's your Goonger Custer. Just not that far away. But in the Snowy River Cluster we've got two main fires there. The Goonger, Dedic Trail and the Mount Glamberty, now Glanterpie. Now Goonger of course is a community. These poor buggers have got fires all around them and they've had warnings and advices and warnings and alerts etc. So they'd be quite on tender hooks and they've been having those alerts now for quite some time. You can see for yourself now significant fire activity in this area. Spotting up to half a kilometre north of this fire. They're still talking about closing roads, they're talking about heavy, heavy, heavy tax, etc. But 75% of the perimeter is still actively spreading on the Goonger fire and the three spot fires of 50 hectares. Pretty big spot fires. Again, don't have to be a firefighter to understand these fires as we go into a bad weekend are currently causing us concern and will continue to cause us concern over the next few days. So that's what's happening in Victoria as we speak. I want to move from that environment to what's about to occur. Okay and keeping in mind really the time of year that we're in. So what we do is that we get some forecast. So this is for today. So you can see the fire conditions across Victoria today are very high right across the state and that's predicated on what we see here is the forest danger index and the grass fire danger index. So today itself is not a good day. If we move forward to Saturday, we see some severe moving into the southwest part of the state and the rest of the state on very high. So we've got on Saturday 38 degrees up to 43 degrees in any language bloody hot. Humidity is down and so we're pretty well hot right across the state in this scenario. The interesting thing for you and the reason I wanted to mention the heat wave stuff is Saturday night there is no change coming through. It will be 30 degrees plus all through the night on Saturday night. And again I ask you to take care of your loved ones from a more parochial fire point of view. What that means is it sucks the bejesus or the dryness out of the soil. Everything is absolutely dry and we've had hot weather leading in but this weekend we get hot today. We get hot tomorrow and overnight Saturday night it remains stinking hot and dry. So any moisture you have in fine fuels in heavy fuels in forests in grassland gone. The fuels are all 100% cured so which effectively means that all the moisture is gone out. So we have Dave and his team look at the fuel moisture content right across the state it's gone empty. It's 100% scientifically shown 100%. It is ready to go. So we've gone on Sunday is the concern for us. So you need to understand the leading up. So we've had some really hot weather reading up. We've got a really hot day today, really hot day Saturday. We expect fires will run Saturday night. So we've all and keep in mind we already have going uncontrolled fires in this part of the state which is a concern for us. So you can just imagine those fires with crews on them, stinking hot, wind gets up behind them, why they're going to be a problem for those particular communities that particular area of the state. The other thing to point in it's probably the first time I don't want to use a benchmark that we always do. Let's just say for a couple of years, for a number of years that we've actually gone into extreme in some parts of the state. It is the first time for some time, for some years we've actually gone into extreme. And if you have a look where we're going into extreme given what we've currently got in the state at the moment, again just reinforces our degree of almost anxiety, concern that we've got in this part of the state. So that's north of the divide. If you look south of it, we still have severe down here in central. So even where we all live as well, it's not just, it is right across the state is a concern for us. The other thing I want to put into the equation that you see on the map is the wind change. The biggest killer of people in Victoria is the change and that's coming through pretty early Sunday morning. Again, pretty unprecedented, I don't even like that word, but it's not usual that we would have a wind change come through that early. It's unknown territory for us and we believe there's strong winds behind the wind change as well. So if you've got a fire that's burning, if you've got a fire and we have in this part of the state that's currently burning under a northerly, we can expect that it will burn all through Saturday night. We can expect on a wind change that thing will turn and head towards the east. Now there's a big ocean between us and, I think it's a sea between us and New Zealand that hopefully will stop it if nobody else can, but there's a lot of stuff in the way before it actually gets to that point. So that's our concern for us moving forward. I want to also reinforce, so I've talked about fire predominantly and our concerns for fire. So that's, we've concerns about what we've got existing, but we're also concerned about any new starts we get across the state. I can tell you the chief has already declared and it's probably a no-brainer a total fire ban all day tomorrow for the whole state, all day, of course it is, and a total ban for the whole state on Sunday as well. So the weekend is a total fire ban for the entire state and I think you can understand why that is. So it's fire is an issue to us, but the other thing is this heatwave conditions that we have here in Victoria. And again, it's not just something we make up, read on the news, etc. We work with the Bureau of Meteorology. We are in heatwave alert and the Health Department of Health are putting out heat warnings as well for loved ones, families, etc. And I talk about animals, pets, elderly, young. You've heard the stuff about leaving kids in the car. I would urge you as a message that it is not just about fire. It is about all Victorians and your loved ones during a time of heat and make sure that we hydrate. So the key messages. Key messages for me, there are severe extreme heat and fire conditions across the state over the next few days. And I say that in a context we've got current fires and we can expect to get new fire starts. Any fires of the landscape on Saturday and Sunday will quickly become uncontrollable. And I say that in an environment where we're already instructing our people, it is unlikely in these conditions we'll be able to stop these fires. It will be about protecting people, which is the primacy of life is our number one objective here. And that is of the community and of course our firefighters. We understand that we will try and hit them as quickly and as hard as possible with the amount of aircraft, with trucks and everything we can to stop them getting big. So obviously we can get them early. We stop them getting into big fires, but that's not always possible. But our first priority here is safety. OK, so it's the safety of our people. We will not compromise our people in any way, shape or form. So if it means we're not going to do a direct attack to save our people and some people don't like it, we're not doing a direct attack. The safety of people will be paramount this weekend. We reinforce what was just being said, the primacy of life. And the Royal Commission was very strong on that to say, CFA fire agencies understand when conditions get so bad, it's actually not about putting out fires. It's about ensuring communities are warned, ensuring communities know what they have to do. And Terry and his team pretty well work full time on making sure communities are empowered and understanding and know what to do on a day of a weekend that we're coming up to. The importance of issuing warnings, the importance of hydrating. And I even say that in our offices. If you're working within this building and you step outside, etc., you can dehydrate just in the air conditioning that we have within the building or in the environment that we go. So make sure you hydrate and not just with water. If you get access to electrolytes, then you should be using them. We say be mindful of fatigue, but the reality is fatigue does step in, not just for firefighters, but for management people, for people here in headquarters. So as much as this is a message for our people on the ground, it's a message for the organization as well. We've, as I said before, our intent is to hit fires hard and fast. With as many, we've got what we call wolf packs, it sounds a bit wanky, but two or three aircraft that will automatically lift off and dump sometimes before firefighters' trucks can get on scene. We've got a deliberate attempt to put fires out quickly this year. Ahead of the wind change, concentrate on the eastern flank. It's a bit of a technical term if you like, but if you understand, I said before I haven't got the map up anymore, the fires head in the northerly direction and on the change, they head towards the east. We have to, as firefighters, we have to shore up that eastern flank before that change comes to stop the damage. And we have to get our firefighters off that eastern flank at least an hour before the change, and therefore it is exposed. So there is a time when we do that. Aircraft nine not be available. Many people forget that in 2009, I said I wouldn't benchmark it against that, but we could not get aircraft up because of the wind. The heavy aircraft, what we call the type ones, the Ericsons, the Elvis type aircraft, we can get up. Anything below that on a heavy wind, you can't get up. So people, planners, we tell our firefighters, planners if you don't have aircraft there available, which they do 90% of the time, and we factor that in. All grasslands are fully cured. I talked to you about that before. Fires will burn actively over Saturday night, which is unprecedented and not necessarily normal, and will burn into Sunday as well with a change coming in strongly on Sunday. The resources you have are the ones all you've got. And I say that in a context, normally what we'd have is the Gippsland fires, and the whole state would direct their energy into Gippsland. At the moment we've got fires in the far west and the far east. We couldn't be further apart if we tried. We get something in the middle, we're starting to stretch resources. So we're saying to our people, plan as if the resources you have today are the same resource you got. You can't guarantee the cavalry will come over the hill. Fight the fire you've got, be guided by the state priorities, and they are simply the preservation of life, community information and warnings, critical infrastructure is our third priority, residential property is our fourth, protecting assets supporting livelihood and protecting economic and conservation needs. Now, probably not a detail you need to know, but understand we've got a priority. When we make a decision, life is number one. It's interesting, your residential house properties, number four. Look, I just want to impress upon you, it is this time of year, it is probably somewhat argue normal business for us. Understand that we're in normal business. Understand what we're going on at the moment. Understand what we're about to go into the next two or three days. But I guess there's a third element to this, and that is that, and I did say it at one stage, there's probably four or five weeks before we can say we can start to get out of jail. Is that politically correct, if I've said it? Before we can say we can actually move on to back into normal business if you like.