Fire season please take care!

Take care this fire season, my neighbour lost his sheds today. Seemingly the other neighbour that lives elsewhere came down and lit a few fires the night before. I gather they stayed the night to make sure all fires were out. One must have sparked back up around 9am this morning and jumped the fence. I was driving past and saw the fire right near the shed, raced in to put it out but it had caught fire to the hay. I managed to get his tractor out but all 50 bales of hay were lost along with his neighbours shed that had $50,000 worth of electrical equipment in it. Called 000 and grabbed my fire unit from home. Didn't make it back in time to stop it before it got to second shed. Was just lucky the paddock was under irrigation and didn't go further. Make sure your fires are out before going to bed or leaving property.


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Jeeze

Sat, 2020-05-02 18:43

 Gonna be some words spoken between those neighbours I'm sure! 
Even though it is likely to be accidental, still hurts the hip pocket at times like this. (Plus the emotional stress)

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Brice, your mate has a clear claim for compensation

Sat, 2020-05-02 22:21

Let me know if I can help. Handled many of these!

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Yep, it will not be a fun

Sun, 2020-05-03 07:54

Yep, it will not be a fun time for either party! 
 

will be worse if we have a shit hay season