So, could something similar happen in major Australian cities – and how prepared are we? The answers are: yes, and not very.
Just tow the fire out of the environment.
LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?
Submitted 1 month ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to australia@aussie.zone
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theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If a suburb has older housing stock with older gardens, for instance, it’s absolutely ripe for a fire to spread quickly. If you have more modern housing stock (which is usually better at defending against ember attack), and the houses are more spaced apart and the gardens are clearer, then you might be OK.
ok but what if we have “more modern housing stock” clad in flammable material and clustered together up each others arses cheek to jowl and excuse me, 1666 London is calling…
dumbass@leminal.space 1 month ago
Same way we cope every year our country burns…
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every city makes a fire break around the whole city.
Geobloke@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Well yeah, it happened in 2019. Pretty sure the bushfires started in August
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just move away from the fire zones? It’s like building sand castles among the reefs at low tide.
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
LoL. Building in the tidal zone, eh?
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Poorly. Very poorly.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 month ago
We use the outer suburbs as a fire break. No trees left to burn there. Just roof and road.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You think modern houses — more glue and plastic than solid timber — aren’t going to explode into flames? Modern suburbs are tinderboxes.
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TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It the people of officer could read they’d be very VERY upset right now.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 month ago
I can see this being picked up by the right as an argument against walkable urbanism (“all that density is a deathtrap!”) and in favour of the car-dependent quarter-acre-block sprawl that is Our Sacred Way Of Life.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Sad but true.