The view from my "office"

[p--and--t]

Earlier today when out & about

 

[jase05]

Great photos and spent a lot of my childhood in that park and pool so it brings back some great memories

 

[Port Power]

Incredibly smoky here in Perth at the moment. All doors and windows shut and when you go outside it is really unpleasant. Apparently due to prescribed burns combined with a day that has turned very still. The photo has not been edited.

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Not where I am in a northern coastal suburb. Now as the sun is setting, I can see some smoke on the western horizon, making for a very red sunset. Prescribed burns can be very disturbing for people with breathing difficulties. I am often amazed the amount of smoke up here when up there are fires way down in the southwest!

 

[Daver6]

Not where I am in a northern coastal suburb. Now as the sun is setting, I can see some smoke on the western horizon, making for a very red sunset. Prescribed burns can be very disturbing for people with breathing difficulties. I am often amazed the amount of smoke up here when up there are fires way down in the southwest!

It's not too bad in the western suburbs. Seems further east is more impacted.




I'm not so sure about these prescribed burns. Every year this time of year is ruined by days of smoke affecting two million people. Really don't see that this is a good thing.

 

[drron]

It's not too bad in the western suburbs. Seems further east is more impacted.

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I'm not so sure about these prescribed burns. Every year this time of year is ruined by days of smoke affecting two million people. Really don't see that this is a good thing.

Because of this fire in WA a Royal commission recommended prescribed burns.

1961 Western Australian bushfires - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And this shows that they work. The more precribed burns in green the less bushfires in red.

Megafires in Australia - Bushfire Front

Avoiding Megafires in Australia The Bush Fire Front April 2009 In the wake of the 2009 Victorian fire disaster the role of prescribed burning in relation to large wildfires (mediaspeak = megafires) has become a hot topic in the media, at academic seminars and on the internet. There have been...

www.bushfirefront.org.au