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What Bullit said.

There are some real dopes out there. There are also some very able and well prepared people. TV news showed some interviews last night - one fool with a bucket hoping to fend off a thin line of ground-only burn, several hundred meters long, creeping down a heavily wooded hilllside towards his house.
Reporter: "Are you worried you might not have enough resources to stop this fire?"
Man: " Ohhh ..... err ..... ahh .... yeah." [looks at bucket hopefully].
His wife explained that they would definitely evacuate if the flames got within ten meters of the house.


Next story was three adults describing how they had used thier own pump, hoses and water supply to keep a mist screen over their house until they were forced into their concrete/brick cellar to escape the heat, then got back out once the front had passed and kept fighting.

Some folks have got it, some folks haven't.

On the donations, some people in North Queenslad have been given $1,000 per adult as emergency flood relief. More than one immediately donated the lot to the bushfire appeal.

The death toll may never be established for certain. They are talking about bodies having been vapourised, effectively cremated, but the fires.