Originally Posted by Amazulu

Well it's been quite a day in Kalamunda.
1 house destroyed & 2 damaged. I was at work but my wife was at home & heard about the fires on the radio. She called FESA & they told her to evacuate. She loaded the dog up & took off. My son was in day care, so was safe, but my wife battled to get there as the police had closed a lot of roads. She took a long way round, picked him up & went to a friends house in Glenn Forest. Luckily, for us anyway, the fire was on the other side of town. They managed to return home late this afternoon. Apparently FESA & the bush firemen were superb. They used helicopters & water bombers to put the fire out. So all credit to them. For us it has been a useful exercise to see how prepared we are & I reckon we are 75% of the way there.
I see police have charged a 58yo man with arson. What a w*nker. I hope he gets locked up.

Originally Posted by Clippies

What a nightmare!

58 year old man, wtf is a 58 year old man doing starting fires?!?!

Originally Posted by Angelap

This is oz,luvvie! ;)

Originally Posted by Jaycee1

Glad your family are safe and well
J x

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Well it's been quite a day in Kalamunda.

1 house destroyed & 2 damaged. I was at work but my wife was at home & heard about the fires on the radio. She called FESA & they told her to evacuate. She loaded the dog up & took off. My son was in day care, so was safe, but my wife battled to get there as the police had closed a lot of roads. She took a long way round, picked him up & went to a friends house in Glenn Forest. Luckily, for us anyway, the fire was on the other side of town. They managed to return home late this afternoon. Apparently FESA & the bush firemen were superb. They used helicopters & water bombers to put the fire out. So all credit to them. For us it has been a useful exercise to see how prepared we are & I reckon we are 75% of the way there.

I see police have charged a 58yo man with arson. What a w*nker. I hope he gets locked up.

Originally Posted by Clippies

What a nightmare!

58 year old man, wtf is a 58 year old man doing starting fires?!?!

Originally Posted by renth

Sounds more like a prat who doesn't understand what "total fire ban" means rather than a malicious arsonist... :rolleyes:


A 58-year-old man has been charged over a large fire in Perth's hills that caused about $800,000 damage, destroying one home and damaging two others.

Duty Insp John Gibson said the Kalamunda man will face a charge of wilfully lighting a fire, after garden refuse he allegedly lit in his backyard got out of control.


http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=16192

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Well it's been quite a day in Kalamunda.
1 house destroyed & 2 damaged. I was at work but my wife was at home & heard about the fires on the radio. She called FESA & they told her to evacuate. She loaded the dog up & took off. My son was in day care, so was safe, but my wife battled to get there as the police had closed a lot of roads. She took a long way round, picked him up & went to a friends house in Glenn Forest. Luckily, for us anyway, the fire was on the other side of town. They managed to return home late this afternoon. Apparently FESA & the bush firemen were superb. They used helicopters & water bombers to put the fire out. So all credit to them. For us it has been a useful exercise to see how prepared we are & I reckon we are 75% of the way there.
I see police have charged a 58yo man with arson. What a w*nker. I hope he gets locked up.

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Well it's been quite a day in Kalamunda.
1 house destroyed & 2 damaged. I was at work but my wife was at home & heard about the fires on the radio. She called FESA & they told her to evacuate. She loaded the dog up & took off. My son was in day care, so was safe, but my wife battled to get there as the police had closed a lot of roads. She took a long way round, picked him up & went to a friends house in Glenn Forest. Luckily, for us anyway, the fire was on the other side of town. They managed to return home late this afternoon. Apparently FESA & the bush firemen were superb. They used helicopters & water bombers to put the fire out. So all credit to them. For us it has been a useful exercise to see how prepared we are & I reckon we are 75% of the way there.
I see police have charged a 58yo man with arson. What a w*nker. I hope he gets locked up.

Originally Posted by northernbird

Glad you and yours are OK.

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Thanks for your's & everyone's concern. Seems the fire is still going but is contained. There are 3 firemen in hospital though. I hope they throw the book at the idiot who started this. I was talking to a woman at the cricket last night who's house was only a few hundred metres from the fire. She said it was terrifying. I still love living up there & the pros outweigh the cons, but you have to be prepared. Hopefully we will be if it ever happens again.

Originally Posted by northernbird

I agree about the idiot, even it it wasn't intentional you would think he would know better than to be having a bonfire on probably the hottest day of the year so far.