Up now and will see what is happening, cool and wet at our place which is not a bad thing, lost a mare yesterday and having to source milk for the foal, windy and the smoke has cleared for the moment but we have been promised blast furnace conditions again on Monday for a few days.
Bogus collectors are knocking doors and taking money, these parasites are as bad as arsonists and looters, opportunistic theft.
Of course 300km away everything can be completely different but there was a wind change yesterday which did not help in any way at all, fire bombers are back on duty as far as I can tell but I have noticed that they are choppers and a biggish Boeing, used to be crop dusters but I haven't seen evidence of any this year, maybe too small for such a huge front.
When I was involved in the fires we had to wear fluoro green overalls, the crop dusters used to call us green ants and try to hit us with the residual phoschek on the return to base trip, they sometimes succeeded and we became red ants.
Depending upon the mixture it was quite viscous and would stick to the tank walls and after the dump would eventually puddle at the bottom, probably about a gallon.
I was classed as a firefighter but spent time one on one with the firefighters trauma debriefing at the front, came close to crapping myself a few times.
Just like a war zone some loved it and others were shell shocked and needed to be sent home, the rest just got on with it and I spent time trying to educate them not to be judgmental.