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Thread👇by Bruce Walker, firefighter & resident of Wytaliba, wiped out by #bushfiresNSW near Glen Innes
It corrects the record on disinformation spun by multiple politicians & MSM about the folks who lived there, the background & underlying causes & lies about hazard reduction

A window on the history & his 1st hand experience, conversations that've been hijacked by pollies to further their narratives.Time to tell the real story
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Originally posted on FB..and remember, this guy's lost everything..

"responding to this well informed fuckwit here - Anthony - just anthony. (okay, zuckerberg? no last names.)  🙊

so mate - first up, i've been an RFS volunteer for close to 20 years &

..am part of the highly regarded Wytaliba RFS - one of the most respected and hardened crews on the northern tablelands and beyond. our crew number over 50 & include decorated vets of ash wednesday & other national distaster catastrophic level fires.

so - regarding hazard reduction. let me fill you in. For my time here, we used to do managed hazard reduction whenever it was viable in winter.
however - sadly, the moment gina & rupert went halves & purchased the LNP wholesale..we saw a MASSIVE increase in wholesale industrial

logging across the nation. Tell me, anthony - do you garden? do you use MULCH?
compare a mulched garden to a non-mulched garden. you'll see a near instant difference. If you're not schooled on how soil works, try standing all day in the sun with no hat on. What happens?

that's right, anthony, your head gets fucking hot
That's what has happened to the planet. now, as anyone who's dabbled in, you know...physics, will spell out better than i can - an increase of just one degree is quite significant.
another neato thing physics talks about is the

water cycle, anthony. you see, part of the water cycle is this cool thing called "transpiration"
it's part 4 of this essential way in which trees send up moisture to meet clouds, creating low pressure troughs which draw rainfall inland. in fact, it's physically impossible to get

rain on the lee side of a mountain, without trees doing this very thing. impossible. ask the residents of the atacama desert in chile - who haven't had rain for one THOUSAND years. why? no fucking trees, anthony. so anyway, back to the greens enacting a ban on burnoffs..

that time we elected them to majority government & they had the final say.
when was that again, anthony? i'll wait. nah. lets move on, since we ALL know this was never a thing - ever.
so anyway - here in wytaliba, we used to have an incredibly green lush valley - right up until

industrial loggers finally broke into compartments to our north.Right about this time,there was a near instant & significant drop to our vital streamflow.This happened again after each & every highland logging operation & with LNP 'slashing & burning' every national park in sight

well... you know, lets' not go there. #ClimateChangeHoax right?
So wholesale burn quotas came in with LNP too. this... well.. i just want to pause here and say "wow" because this did indeed make us say wow.
in recent years, we've seen hazard reduction burns take place

completely surrounding our once green, lush valley. so much so, that after the last july burn - of an area once supplying most of our water - well... 27 years of no burn had left a healthy & regenerating semi-arid rainforest. now it's simply arid nothing.

Despite this burn & 3 more last year, we got the following result - fires flared up in this dry mulchless wasteland & burned for 6 weeks, destroying 2 more former rainforest areas, leaving them also tinder dry & unable to transpire - hasn't actually rained a drop since then..

Weird..almost like cause and effect took place.clouds pass over, for sure. they get rain on the tablelands even - but - as physics reminds us, when air drops, it warms, expands & rather than raining, sucks even more moisture from trees & soil.
oh well. I mean, this is normal

for australia, isn't it? watching 200 or more year old trees slowly wither & die right in front of you. that's normal. happens all the time. rivers dry up too, even though ours is home to platypi - who aren't known for travelling much - & hasn't dried up in probably

100,000 years minimum. until last summer & it's been bone dry since august. this has never happened in my entire 25 or so years here. no local elders remember such a thing. wow.

now, we all know about the bees nest & kingsgate fires & the hundreds more around the state.

my crew and many other heroic RFS volunteers have been fighting them for months on end. yet another backburn actually got lit up about a month ago, on our south side, just half an hour before high southerly winds were due. the responsible paid agency, then ran out of paid hours..

packed up & left it to spot onto our property & threaten 80 homes.
we're like the mujahideen though, so we got it after about 10 days nonstop hectic battle.
this...brings us up to date, andrew. we've got bare, blacked out dust for 50km in all directions. right up to the actual

eaves of half the homes here which is why, friday's hellstorm caught all of us by surprise, andrew.
a mushroom cloud went up at 3pm, 20 or so km away. within 30 minutes, high winds turned that into a 20km long front - strangely, this front was on ground burnt black as recently as

3 weeks ago, crown fires too, since every tree was literally a giant matchstick with dead leaves & nothing else. this then switched to 80km/h southerlies & rained hell on 3500 acres of already blacked out ground.
well... you can't say we didn't prep or do hazzard reduction

can you andrew? or can you?
curiously, within 1 hour we'd lost 20 homes, a school, a fireshed & a contrete fucking bridge - meaning only 2 outside units even got in to help.
falling trees in the hundreds blocked the old grafton road, so no one could even help neighbours.
by dawn

of 80 homes in our community, 52 were lost, 2 dead (one a sex party voter, the other apolitical - this one is for you, barnaby fucking joyce) 😉 we had many injured, thousands of local animals died & it' looks like a warzone here. which it did almost before, except we had homes.

so, Anthony & ALL you fucking armchair experts out there, tell me. how again, was this the greens fault?
thanks.
bruce walker, wytaliba RFS member & survivor.

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