A Day in the Life: Carwoola Brigade in Fire Season 2019/20
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2020
- Ever wondered why it takes so long and so much effort to put out a bushfire?
Most Australian bushfire fighting is generally one of three things: a chaotic scramble to protect life & properties, back-burning or blacking out (or a bit of a mix)
"Backburning" is aimed at creating containment lines well in front of the fire. "Blacking out" is making sure those containment lines haven't got anything burning or smouldering close to the unburnt area.
It is this kind of work that takes up most of the time. It is hard, hot, dirty, tedious work and, as you will see, hugely labour and time intensive.
Trouble is, normally the media aren't much interested in this kind of work, so it gets very little attention and consequently the public often have little understanding of what goes on.
To give you a feel for what a full day of back-burning looks like, we thought we'd put together a "Day in the Life" of one crew from just one Brigade during the enormous 2019/2020 Fire Season.
On 5 February, Carwoola Brigade (and many others) were working at the Jinden fire (also just one of many burning at the time). The Jinden fire was about 50km south of Braidwood and this day's work was near the Wyanbene Caves. Together, the assembled crews for that day managed to back-burn a containment line about 2-3 kilometres long.
Great to show what happens beyond the media hype! Well done Carwoola on all levels. I too did numerous deployments (from Stanthorpe) during 2019/20 and can only hold my hat at the work you, and so many other Brigades, did. Hold your heads high, I think we made a difference.
Great video, I live in the north east of the state, and came down south on a few deployments, as I’m wth the rfs. Thanks for sharing a snap shot of what your brigade did, good stuff. 👍
I especially am impressed by the organization and command and control. Everybody knows exactly what they are doing and why!
You folks are very professional, and it is wonderful that most, if not all of you are volunteers! In the states, many volunteer firefighters could really take lessons from the way you all conduct yourselves and do your duties.
Love the detail of the video and the editing is not cutting out too much. Probationary from the south coast. Good job guys
Sounds like Scott
Love your work..
Brigades have to fund their own powered hose reel (re)winders. Also Tactical Radios.
32:35 the portable water pumps nice and snug. It ain't gong anywhere
I truly loved watching this, it is a very interesting thing to watch. I hope to see some more in the future
Modern firefighting, get off the phones, a'd laptops 😂