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I just checked the CFA website. Literally everywhere we went on holidays has either had fires burn through, or is currently having community meetings to inform everyone of where to go when/if the fires arrive.

There's still an enormous firefront burning from Omeo to NSW.

It's really quite amazing, especially when you consider that there's barely any coverage of them at the moment - they're off in the bush and let's face it, Osama's rant is more recent and Warney's out of the World Cup (suffer!)

But that is still one huge fire.

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I just got my first bill from the new electricity company. It's got 2 graphs, one is the money I pay, the second is the amount of Greenhouse gasses I am not producing by choosing the Green option.

But I'm looking at the amount of greenhouse gasses those fires are producing and thinking "why bother?" I am baffled by the lack of coverage of the fires, even on ABC radio. I can only assume no serious property is currently under threat.

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Well apparently the fire front is 320km long (!) but yes, it's mostly in National park atm, and heading back into the hills.

So no property threats, and lots of backburning.

And the area burnt so far equals a circle around Melb with a radius of 60km (!!)