Sorry Kingpins, but please don't play the" too young to experience" card you must be getting desperate. Back in the day, most fires would be extinguished with wet chaff bags,a McLeod tool, and a bit of water from an old blitz truck.No aerial defenses, retardants, or advanced protective clothing.No sophisticated communications nor predictive capacity of fire behavior .And yet with all these advances in firefighting technique that are now at our disposal, it is impossible to contain these mega-fires, which are a new global phenomenon. And yes, these fires are very different from other fires in Australiia both in severity and the types of landscapes that are burning .You only have to listen to the frontline firies and their expert spokesmen to accept this, otherwise you are being deliberately obtuse.
