vidak

Me too, everything around me burned for weeks. Total waste of vacation, Christmas was cancelled for us.

Farrrk (the way Australians pronounce it)

Luckily you're okay!

We had a HUGE bush fire raging as I got on the plane to leave Perth. I was worried the smoke was going to prevent us from leaving. Luckily we got away.

We had a huge fire down south that killed people, and then photos surfaced of the fire crews sleeping in mid daylight from exhaustion. I didn't know why more people weren't sent down to help - I feel so incredibly embarassed and asha...

--ashamed that we left our firefighters to work for three days in a row with no sleep