Stormy winds have driven the fire into our direction and the farmers gathered after a fire alert was sent out!
It is a fearsome sight for farmers to view an oncoming fire. The danger is that all of their hard work can be destroyed in an instant and millions will be flushed down the drain. A failed crop can be budgeted for, but a fire driven by angry winds is a totally different story.
I will relate the story in the pictures below.
Here we are at the head of the fire and you can see the smoke rolling into an orchard!
The wind drives the fire sparks ahead of the smoke and here it has flamed up at the northern side of the bridge that I am standing on!
The guys were down with their hoses to saturate the sparks and the area with water!
We had to get out of the way and as I type this now, through the window, I can thankfully see rain clouds that are starting to appear in the sky overhead.
Thousands of hectares of arable land are lost to fires every year in our country. Some fires are started by the searing heat and others by disgruntled people in a vengeance act. Last year many properties were lost and great damage occurred in a huge fire at one of the coastal regions. But under these conditions the nation stands together to help each other and to rebuild the destroyed properties. If only...……..
Thank you for visiting a post by 
