I can't believe it's already coming up to the 10 year anniversary of this event. I was only 7 years old, my family lived in Jeeralang Junction, and my sister just looked out our window to see a huge cloud over the hill. The fire was on a direct path with our house for so long, it was only saved by the change of direction by the wind. Its something you don't forget.
Extraordinary video and really reminded me of everything about that day, I was in hazelwood north a few kilometres away, and it was so eerie and frightening. Your video is excellent, well done ❤
Thank you. We are so lucky to have extremely highly trained firefighters and volunteers that protect us as much as they can, as well as helping other states in Australia, and even around the world. Much love to them, and you
Sorry I'm late. The province I'm from actually sent firefighters to Australia during the 2020 season. I think that is when swaths of land were burned. We do have these fires here, a lot of them are in the wilderness (Taiga Forest). Boreal forest is also a name for basically black spruce, white and Red spruce, balsam fir, red and white pine, broken and intermingled with white birch, yellow and grey birch, maple, 3 aspens, Elm, and a few other "broad-leaved" trees which lose their leaves every fall (October). Again, stay safe. Just a note, look up "The Miramichi Fire". It was a series of large fires burning in New Brunswick, right where I am from.
You have done a wonderful job with this video! As someone who lives over the hill from the beginnings of this fire and knows full well the hell of not only this day but the weeks that followed, this is a great depiction. Thank you!
Horrifying stuff. I was driving home from Traralgon when I saw the flames racing across the hills behind my house. What followed was one of the most surreal days I've ever lived through. Can't believe it's been over a decade 😔 I was stuck on the far side of town and didn't get to see any of the late developments, so this has been eye opening. The town was very lucky that it didn't get destroyed by the fire... but it's tragic that so many people did lose their lives that day. Thanks for uploading this.
I lived quite a fair distance away from the main fires, but even the smoke turned our skies grey. Horrible, horrible, day to experience as a four year old.
i remember going to inverloch beach and on the way i seen the fire start around that region, when i left the beach it got massive and the sky went red and was real scary.
Crazy to look back on this, i was only 5 years old when this happened and we live up where the fires happened. vividly remember evacuating in the day and the sky was completely black.
These fires really did cover Victoria, i was near the fire in Ferntree Gully as was my father, My girlfriends mum was near the fires up near Murrindindi and her father was near the fire down in Churchill... such vast differences on the same day... bad day
I saw the Murrindindi fires. I was up at a transmission site that overlooks lake Eildon and gets into Marysville helping my dad get the ABC translator up again after the mains failed and the backup generator failed to start. Seeing how vast across the horizon that fire was is something I’ll never forget
I believe this was in February 2009. At that time my mum was pregnant with me, 3 months from me bing born. Where I live now, is right down the road where the fire started. The fire swept through where live now, and I grow emotional when I see the picture of the firefighter giving the koala water. It's so scary but so special, and me and my parents will never forget that disastrous fire. Even though I wasn't born yet, I am so thankful to the firefighters who helped save lives and houses.
You’d have to have lived through black Saturday to get a proper feel for it. The scale and power of it all is something not able to be felt just by footage of the day. I went through the Murrindindi fires and I’ll never forget just how vast across the horizon it was in the distance, and the aftermath in Marysville
This was my very first bush fire i was just with the cfa for only about a month or two and my captain wasn't really allowed for me to go out at the time but the fires was that Hugh the team backed me to go out and my God that was a massive eye open. Still this day haven't seen or been near anything as extreme like that
And as much as people say “hopefully we never see something like this again” it’s an inevitable cycle of life. Absolutely terrifying display of mother natures power but something we can only prepare for
Good one Marg, I was home of course but missed most of the action as I had closed up the house and shopped early because of the suspected heat. It wasn't till my brother rang about 3pm that I knew something was amiss. Lucky for me because then I was freekin
I'm not familiar with the area and was on the other side of Australia at the time. Can you confirm, are the surface winds blowing away from you at the start of this video? I'm finding it hard to comprehend what looks like the back of the fire near crowning?
I can't believe it's already coming up to the 10 year anniversary of this event. I was only 7 years old, my family lived in Jeeralang Junction, and my sister just looked out our window to see a huge cloud over the hill. The fire was on a direct path with our house for so long, it was only saved by the change of direction by the wind. Its something you don't forget.
That thing was a 10 minute driving distance from my place. I'll never forget this
Extraordinary video and really reminded me of everything about that day, I was in hazelwood north a few kilometres away, and it was so eerie and frightening. Your video is excellent, well done ❤
Hi from Canada. Everyone please stay safe during bushfire season!!
Thank you. We are so lucky to have extremely highly trained firefighters and volunteers that protect us as much as they can, as well as helping other states in Australia, and even around the world. Much love to them, and you
Thank you 🙏
Sorry I'm late. The province I'm from actually sent firefighters to Australia during the 2020 season. I think that is when swaths of land were burned.
We do have these fires here, a lot of them are in the wilderness (Taiga Forest).
Boreal forest is also a name for basically black spruce, white and Red spruce, balsam fir, red and white pine, broken and intermingled with white birch, yellow and grey birch, maple, 3 aspens, Elm, and a few other "broad-leaved" trees which lose their leaves every fall (October).
Again, stay safe.
Just a note, look up "The Miramichi Fire". It was a series of large fires burning in New Brunswick, right where I am from.
You have done a wonderful job with this video!
As someone who lives over the hill from the beginnings of this fire and knows full well the hell of not only this day but the weeks that followed, this is a great depiction. Thank you!
Watching this always makes me feel nervous during very hot days.
Excellent doco, well done!
Horrifying stuff. I was driving home from Traralgon when I saw the flames racing across the hills behind my house. What followed was one of the most surreal days I've ever lived through. Can't believe it's been over a decade 😔
I was stuck on the far side of town and didn't get to see any of the late developments, so this has been eye opening. The town was very lucky that it didn't get destroyed by the fire... but it's tragic that so many people did lose their lives that day. Thanks for uploading this.
I lived quite a fair distance away from the main fires, but even the smoke turned our skies grey. Horrible, horrible, day to experience as a four year old.
Churchill was my hometown when I watched this it brought so many memories
good or bad?
@@swagmasterct4523 really u fookwitt
I remember this day, the sky turned an eeire red colour, it started to drizzle a kind of wet ash.
Laurie Mckay were u at Traralgon
Same mate. I lived in sale at the time
i remember going to inverloch beach and on the way i seen the fire start around that region, when i left the beach it got massive and the sky went red and was real scary.
Crazy to look back on this, i was only 5 years old when this happened and we live up where the fires happened. vividly remember evacuating in the day and the sky was completely black.
These fires really did cover Victoria, i was near the fire in Ferntree Gully as was my father, My girlfriends mum was near the fires up near Murrindindi and her father was near the fire down in Churchill... such vast differences on the same day... bad day
I saw the Murrindindi fires. I was up at a transmission site that overlooks lake Eildon and gets into Marysville helping my dad get the ABC translator up again after the mains failed and the backup generator failed to start. Seeing how vast across the horizon that fire was is something I’ll never forget
at 3:19 you can see a white car leaving if you look closely
I did see it!
I saw it, Man they needed to get out of there quicker right?
It was probably a home made small tanker, to try and defend the property
Bushfire season is upon us. May these sad images remind us to prepare ourselves just in case we find ourselves in a simular situation.
Sad memories return with this short video. From my point of view, well told.
I believe this was in February 2009. At that time my mum was pregnant with me, 3 months from me bing born. Where I live now, is right down the road where the fire started. The fire swept through where live now, and I grow emotional when I see the picture of the firefighter giving the koala water. It's so scary but so special, and me and my parents will never forget that disastrous fire. Even though I wasn't born yet, I am so thankful to the firefighters who helped save lives and houses.
You’d have to have lived through black Saturday to get a proper feel for it. The scale and power of it all is something not able to be felt just by footage of the day.
I went through the Murrindindi fires and I’ll never forget just how vast across the horizon it was in the distance, and the aftermath in Marysville
This was my very first bush fire i was just with the cfa for only about a month or two and my captain wasn't really allowed for me to go out at the time but the fires was that Hugh the team backed me to go out and my God that was a massive eye open. Still this day haven't seen or been near anything as extreme like that
And as much as people say “hopefully we never see something like this again” it’s an inevitable cycle of life.
Absolutely terrifying display of mother natures power but something we can only prepare for
Good one Marg, I was home of course but missed most of the action as I had closed up the house and shopped early because of the suspected heat. It wasn't till my brother rang about 3pm that I knew something was amiss. Lucky for me because then I was freekin
I lived rignt near there it was scary as sht
so sad , still remember the loss
I can't believe someone exualy doing this on purpose its terrifying
I'm not familiar with the area and was on the other side of Australia at the time. Can you confirm, are the surface winds blowing away from you at the start of this video? I'm finding it hard to comprehend what looks like the back of the fire near crowning?
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the wind change at 7 save Traralgon south
i live near there
OH....Sorry about that
My best mate lived right in the middle of that he lost everything
I'm sure they still have that same football netball club sign displayed around 😂
you can see the fire right at the back of my property!
They got the guy who lit this didn't they?
We went thru flood here in March but I believe this fire much worse
I had to evacute
OMG MY MUM IS IN THE VIDEO 0:58
Really!?
Omg
It stated in bendigo