saintal wrote:Alaska wrote:saintal wrote:Fire
It must be close to you or your family Saintal, I hope things go well!
(Been in the Hills for long enough to understand the issues involved.)
Thanks Alaska. My folks live 'out the back' of Lenswood towards Montacute/Forest Range. Has been a stressful day, but thankfully the wind direction has been favourable. Things seem to have steadied in their area at least. Hopefully those living towards Basket Range will be ok as they are under the greatest threat.
We should never take the CFS for granted

I know the feeling and sympathise with what you have been through in the last few days. I was checking the CFS web site regularly.
I had a 20 acre property on the Echunga side of Hahndorf from 1983 till 1996, and had several episodes of relative anxiety.
On two occasions the fires stopped on the other side of the road - only the road width away.
As I got older and my wife's hea
lth started to fail we had to get out.
I was living in Olinda in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges, just after my wife's death, during the fires there in 2008/9, and surrounded by spot fires with no way to drive out. Fortunately, despite that, none came closer then 8km in the end, but it left a mark. I'm still in a hills environment back here in SA but in a location where the fires would have to burn through a lot of other properties first to get to me.
We should always support the CFS - they do a good job.