Just wanted to take a moment to send your country all our thoughts and prayers at this time. I hope you and your family and friends are safe and well. praying the fires will be contained soon without further loss.

Thank you, its been fairly horrendous. We live in suburban melbourne but fire took off here on Saturday (t was horrendously hot - 118 degrees F), and six homes were lost - very cose by, we had the cars packed, ready to flee. Our suburb turned into a nightmare of grassfires and spot fires, as we're on the very outskirts of the city - the sky was dark, we were under ember attack and the stuff on the washing line got burned!!

But that's nothing compared to people living in our rural areas, its absolutely tragic, and the hugest loss of life we've had. And they're saying now that a good deal of the fires were deliberately lit.

the weather's also not on our side, the fires are still going and likely to pick up again the coming weekend.

How awful and tragic. I've been following the news like a hawk as I have spent a lot of time in Australia and have many friends there. I'm thinking of all you constantly, and am hoping to hear better news soon.

I'd like to add my thoughts and prayers as well.

Living in California, we see our share of bad fires (and DH is a fireman for our state) but this is just horrible. I really hope they find the murderers who started these fires but it's probably not going to happen. :thumbup: Arson is easy to prove, what's hard is finding the person(s) responsible and prosecuting them.

This is just horrible.

Stay safe!

prayers and thoughts to you-

I remember my on line friends who helped me during IKE-

God Bless and keep you safe