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> The Australian Defense Force is sending ships to the Victoria town of Mallacoota on a two-week supply mission

Sums up the lies from Time etc pretty well

Using logic from primary school, exactly how could this happen?

Two-week supply mission?

Richest nation on earth, aka Australia.

How does a fire destroy the ability for trucks to get through a road?

Falling trees is the best fantasy I can think of. Which as long and they are slow moving, trucks can manage.

Australians LARPing hurt like this is pretty fucked up. Two weeks supply my arse.

Next door in Indonesia many people have died in flooding today, but they are brown. So Ozies bring it up about their pain for Facebook likes while the brown people have a true hurt.

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The town of Mallacoota is essentially surrounded by a moat of fire at the moment. The residents are trapped inside this ring, one part of which is the ocean. The Navy, as well as supplying, are evacuating people off the beach as there is no other safe way out of that part of the country at the moment.

I'll add here because parent is flagged, but the fires can get so hot that the radiant heat will kill you from 100m away.

The firestorms suck up all the oxygen, and can cause massive 'fire tornadoes' that have literally flipped a fire truck onto its back.

It's not a question of 'just' sending the trucks in.

You can definitely just send the trucks in. Whether anyone will be actually alive a few minutes later is a very different proposition. I'd advise against it. People underestimate just how hot fire can get and what it actually means to operate next to and within an environment that is essentially a furnace. A furnace that stretches all around you and up into the sky and is moving all the time. The air is hot and thick. Your protective gear is hot. Embers are flying around and if they touch something flammable they become a fresh new fire.

A few "trees across the road" means many minutes to clear that road. Which is surrounded by fire. Or soon will be. That wind could change any minute. Or the logs are still smouldering or on fire. So you clear the road and then a few hundred metres later you reach more fallen trees and massive ditch you can't pass. Now the fire has crossed the road behind you.

Sure, why not drive through all that?

I watched a video [0] of a 'flash-over' of a firetruck, scary as hell.

I've no idea how someone could propose to evacuate people through conditions like that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvy2siEwOZ0

Just saw a news article about it tonight. Look it up mate, it's fact.

Roads blocked, essential services non-functional, likely be weeks before these various facilities are restored.

You're obviously not familiar with the scale of Australian bushfires.

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