http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-1...cebook/5029766
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-1...rgency/5028762
Bushfire season has come early this year with high temps and winds up to 90km/h today. More than 2000 firefighters are battling more than 90 blazes around the state. Friends of mine who live near Springwood where one of the fires is have confined they are OK but it looks like there are possibly hundreds of people who may have lost their homes.

I work in the building with the pyramid on top of it on the right of this picture. This is about 50km as the crow flies from the seat of the blaze that caused the smoke plume.