what people dont know about australia is that the majority of bush trees that we have here are gum trees. where the tree's have a large amount of gum sap inside the tree which pours out through holes at times. when theres a bush fire the heat gets so intense that it cooks the gum inside the tree and then the pressure builds up and explodes which most of the times acts like a bomb full of shrapnel. the gum which explodes sends out a huge fireball which can travel a few hundred metres or feet like a cannon ball. thats what our firefighters have to deal with. and because of the fireballs from gumtrees it only takes less than a minute for a fire to burn through a mile of bushland in less than 2 minutes. you try running 2 miles in less than 2 minutes in extreme heat and smoke and fireballs bursting around you. 1 minute your looking at a fire in the far distant horizon and the next minute your trapped. the fires in melbourne didnt just come from one direction. it came from all directions. people could see it coming from the west and headed east only to find it coming from the east as well. smoke is what confused people. it made it hard to see where the fires were coming from.
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