Thanks all, its extremely heartwarming to read your kind thoughts.
Sadly, I can't give an update any better than my first post. The smoke is still horrendous, every article of clothing, well just about literally everything in the house smells of smoke now.
The fire(s) are still out of control, the planes and helos are still working non stop. We have volunteer fire fighters now from the US, Canada and New Zealand and that has been a blessing for our guys as they are exhausted. Fire crews from all around Australia have been flown into Sydney and have come then South. Thankfully the highway has been reopened after being closed for 10 days, for 70 kilometres there's just nothing now on either side of the highway, it looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off.
All bush fire fighters in Australia are volunteers and not paid. All their gear and equipment is supplied by the governments. Each town has their own bush fire brigade and truck and the volunteers will go where needed. So we have hundreds of trained firies on the ground here battling this devastating fire that's so far burnt out 210,000 thousand acres (just in our area), but its in the middle of millions of acres of wilderness right up the coast fringed with houses right up alongside this wilderness. Around 500 homes have been lost so far.
They have done a lot of backburning and the army has brought in heavy machinery and they are doing huge firebreaks in the hope of containing directly to our West, I still do believe that we will be OK.
Once again, thank you ALL for your kind thoughts, its so very much appreciated.
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