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they need locking up...

this is a tragedy

mick were routing for you mate stay safe xxx

Hoping you're OK Mick!

Thinking of you mate
stay safe .
Got everything crossed for ya
Rosexx

Be safe Mick thinking of you mate xx

Just found on a blog added 30 mins ago...(was googling Micks town), that spotfires are breaking out in the area, no doubt caused by embers.

Mick

thinking of you and all your neighbours.
Please don't take any risks.

Keeping everything crossed for you all.
Stay safe.

I think it might be days rather than hours before we hear anything of Mick, so keep him and all our cousins in Victoria, NSW and other areas suffering the wildfires at the moment in your thoughts and prayers.

Been out all day and came straight on to check this, I hope you're alright Mick..

HI MICK. I HOPE YOU ARE SAFE FROM THE RAGING FIRES.
MY COUSIN IN GEELONG WAS TELLING ME THE POLICE HAVE CAUGHT AN ARSONIST, SO I HOPE HE IS SEVERELY DEALT WITH.

PURPLE LIZ HAD POOTER PROBS, BUT HAS ASKED ME TO SAY SHE IS THINKING OF YOU.

XX

hes been released liz hun :(

Hope you're ok Mick. Please let us know when you can.

The confirmed death toll is now at 25.

Hope you are safe Mick.

My thoughts and best wishes to Mick, his family and his neighbours.

From the ABC news site , this is Micks area.

Fire authorities say it will be days before they can stop bushfires burning in Gippsland in Victoria's east.

More towns have been added to the list of communities that will be under threat today.

The fire north of Drouin is burning in a north-easterly direction and warnings have been issued for Warragul through to Neerim Junction, and also south to Darnum and Ellinbank.

The fire has burned through 5,000 hectares and the Princes Highway is blocked at Pakenham.

The big fire that started at Churchill is now threatening the Carrajung area, Won Wron and Woodside near the Gippsland coast.

The South Gippsland Highway is closed between Yarram and Sale.

The fire is also threatening Traralgon South and Metropolitan Fire Brigade crews are working to protect the Loy Yang Coal mine and power station.

nudge up, its not over yet, though it seems to be calming down a bit.

As I go safely to bed I'll be thinking and praying for those in danger..

No it's far from over.

Headline news Brisbane Courier Mail Sunday ;

" HELL ON EARTH"

14 Killed, up to 50 feared dead in Victorian bushfire horror.

Fourteen people were dead an it was feared dozens more had perished in a wave of bushfires that has devasteated Victoria.

Ten separate infernos, fanned by gale-force winds and 47.9
Centigrade - ( 118.22 Fahrenheit ) record temperatures, swept through regional towns across the state.

My heart goes out to all these poor people, I pray that the temperatures and the winds will ease.

The bitter irony is as I turn the page of the newspaper the next headline is;

"North drowing in a flood of tears"

Hope turned to hearbreak for saturated north Queensland yesterday when flooding rains swamped the region again scuttling hopes of a quick end to the crippling natural disaster that has affected thousands of families, farms and buinesses.

Two states in Australia, one burning, the other drowning, it is an abosulte tragedy.

Hope you are ok Mick, take care

Helen

Hi Helen, blowing over our snow & rain to put out your fires.

Hoping you guys will be OK in Aussie land. Thinking of you at this time.

Steve.
xxx

thinking of you Mick and hope your safe.. xxx