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AussieMan
February 3rd, 2009, 02:04
Due to a series of dry electrical storms that passed through my area today I have spent several hours in our local RFS Communications room guiding brigades to several fires started by lightning.

More storms are predicted tonight and the fire danger tomorrow is very high to extreme.

I have already been contacted to be in the radio room at 0800 tomorrow to do flight following and general comms on several fires that started tonight.

To give you an idea of the severity of these storms we had 800 to 1000 lightning strikes in the area around Lithgow. Throughout the whole Lithgow fire district there were something like 80000 strikes. Lts of potential for fires to surface tomorrow.

Because of this, even though I have had little input into this practice run I will be out of circulation for a couple of days. Hopefully I will be able to pop in after my shift at night.

Cheers
Pat