Black Saturday Bushfires: TRT Podcast - Episode 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- In the first episode of the TRT Podcast, Tristan takes you back in time to Australia in 2009, and tells about the Black Saturday bushfires.
It is a very intense story about the bushfires, that had a great impact on people, nature, and animals, including horses.
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Thank you for this episode. I had to be very careful not to be triggered by it. I live in the gorgeous town of Kinglake, where as you'd know, was pretty much *ground zero* on that shitful day. It took us 10 years of therapy to get over it.
TEN of my close friends died & a gazillion bodies of wildlife had to be rescued and/or euthanised for weeks & months on end.
We managed to save our actual house because 2 of our grandchildren were sheltered inside with a couple of our dogs. We lost all outbuildings, feed sheds, stables, float, every fence, yards, gates etc. Even the solar panels on our house roof melted.
I know that sound of horses screaming to get away & the jostling & mooing of our farmer neighbour's Angus cattle finding safer shelter in a corner under a hedgerow of pine trees.
We were so relieved to find the whole herd still alive the next day but we rescued many horses & ponies that week. The sight of passing by a dead blackened chestnut pony laying on the road swollen like a barbequed sausage was an image that took months to get out of my mind.
Fortunately we had taken our horses off the mountain 10 days earlier to a safer, open agistment property nearby.
You're so right about the sound of the blasts of the fires approaching. Wow. Like jet engines.
My husband's eardrums both burst from the power of those blasts but we had the incentive to save our grandkids.
My own burns (down my back) weren't too bad & I didn't even feel them for over a week because our shock was so great.
The whole world came to our rescue for a long time afterwards & we are still deeply touched by that.
We spent the next dozen years helping to rebuild our little town, and so many friends to build new homes. Every person here was deeply affected by that day. EVERYONE.
We have meticulous evacuation plans for our horses, even to the point of having had stencils made with our phone numbers ready to spray paint the numbers on thier sides.
There were a lot of horses that we never found owners for.
Our local vets worked day & night to relieve suffering animals.
Still, we'll never leave our beloved area knowing there will probably come a time when it will happen all over again. We are ready.
I know the Nar Nar Goon area reasonably well, and your account of that day is a very accurate one.
Thank you for your story of those fires that will go down in history. We were INvoluntary firefighters on that day but we are stronger & wiser for it. We absolutely know what to do.
X LH
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Wow powerful story.
I have lived many of my 80+ years in California's high risk wildfire areas where evacuation notices are a routine part of life. This story made me wonder why the owner had not haltered and brought her horses into a controllled area for evacuation. Tristan and his friend showed extraordinary courage that day. I'm a devoted van of Tristan, and love the way he turns his philosopher's mind to the world of horses.
I thoroughly enjoyed that Tristan. You obviously have a great team behind you, Connie as your right hand & I'm sure many others behind the scenes. But you do a wonderful job! Very engaging to listen to! Great story & a fabulous vehicle for teaching the value of our life experience & how to draw out the lessons implicit to those stories. A great means too, of illustrating your point about horses potential for different decision making. And our role in that! I'm in Victoria & lived through that time as well, from a very safe distance. Your recollections are amazingly vivid & bring it all to life. Thankyou for sharing your experience & I do look forward to more. Best wishes from the Mornington Peninsula, Australia. 🐎🐴😄🙌🙏
Incredible story! You have a wonderful way of explaining/teaching things.Looking forward to the next podcast and other live events!
I have just followed you for a week and tried to watch whatever is out there. I find you such a great teacher because you empower your horses through the TRT Method which in turn empowers their owners, trainers, and riders whether they be the same or not. I rode English at at a young age around 13 for a short time and don’t know much. But I know beauty and truth when I see it. Thank you for willing to share your growth through successes as well as mistakes. Reflection of time is another aspect of learning, as you do that well. I hope you continue your podcasts. I live in South Central Texas. I don’t anticipate your coming this way.
Incredible and terrifying! Big take away I always get from your teachings is your great reverence for nature and how it is a force we have to respect and work with. We simply can't control something so innately powerful, we have to learn to teach awareness and intelligence. Love the sharing of this very sobering experience. Keep them coming. 👏
Wow, what a scary experience. I really love your thinking about allowing the horse or other animal to make their own choices and become active participants rather than passive. I'm looking forward to your next podcast.
Thank you so much. Listen with rolling tears on my cheeks. Great your bringing this experience to he now and looking what we can learn about it what we really like to learn our horsen. Blessed to be a part of this TRT community.
Thank you Tristan for sharing your experience, thoughts & knowledge with us…..look forward for further podcasts!!
I always learn so much from you. Thank you so much for your wisdom, insights, and knowledge.
Wow Tristan, just finished listening/watching this, compelling and terrifying account of events. You tell it so well too, thoroughly enjoyed, albeit feeling sad about the devastation from these fires. Truly thought provoking, and leading me to think about other situations where I wonder whether I taught the horse this or that, or he / she processed, thought and learned him/herself. Thank you, so glad I am part of your community
Amazing lesson here!
Thank you, Tristan! Cant wait for more!
OMG what a powerful podcast! Thank you. Oh man, I have so much to meditate on now. I once asked my yoga instructor (during teacher training) how I could give my students the most impactful yoga experience that I myself had experienced. She told me that I couldn't and shouldn't because even if I could, I would be robbing the students of their empowerment of learning and discovering. She told me to just present it with openness and love, to let go and let the students have their own discovery. ......Epic podcast man....
Can't wait for the next one
Are you streaming on any podcast platforms or just here on youtube?
Begs the question why they weren't evacuated in time.
That's simple: Because humans sometimes make tragically wrong decisions for different reasons.
However this story is not about human decisionmaking but about the choice the horses had made - and about humans who create the possibility to make such a decision.
Thank you for sharing, Tristan, great story and very touching.
There were many fires in the region, it was a catastrophic fire day and the mobile towers and power networks were destroyed so people could not be alerted. So many mountain ranges where you couldn't see the fires over the ranges.
Elizabeth, you would have to know ALL of the many varied circumstances before you make a statement like that. The wind changed...vastly & the fire turned rapidly. One minute the skies were clear and SEVEN MINUTES later we were fighting for our lives. You can't believe everything you read or hear.
Less judgement please.
LH
@@lindylufromoz5111 I look at data, not feelings. The area had been under extreme threat for 4 days running. Why would anyone stay under those circumstances?