I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago about the problem with bush fires out here. Today, with temperatures in the low thirties, they got a whole lot closer. There were two burning in close proximity to the University campus as we looked slightly worryingly from the office window. One in particular was burning in West Pymble, about half a mile away from work and even more worryingly about quarter of a mile from our house. The services were straight onto it, with three then four helicopters in the sky within minutes. Two of the helicopters (one nicknamed Elvis apparently) were fire-bombing the worst of the flames and within a couple of hours had things under control.
I walked across the campus to get to the gym at lunch time (no sign of our road bikes from the UK yet, so I'm still interval training on a static bike a couple of times a week) and took these videos as the helicopters took water from the University's lake. You can probably see the smoke coming up from the bush beyond the lake in the second video - the site of the fire.
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