Australian Fires

Hi Guys,

I am an Australian thankfully living in London, but at the moment trying to get in touch with fqamily and friends in Melbourne. This has been difficult with many phone lines down, so if you have any spare change you can donate it here, this is a UK site:

http://www.redcross.org.uk/index.asp?id=39992

I hope Ludicious Louisa is fine!!

Respect to Leonard Cohen, who is currently touring Australia, for donating A$200,000 to the victims.

Cohen's Tour Manager wrote:

Leonard has loved his time in Australia on this tour and is shocked and deeply saddened by the news of the fires.

Leonard, Paul, their touring parties and everyone at AEGLive UK and the Frontier Touring Company wish to extend their heartfelt sympathies to those that have suffered the loss of loved ones or their homes through this terrible tragedy.

I can't even imagine what some of those people are going through.

My heart goes out to them.

It's horrendous and hard to believe that some of these have been started deliberately.
What are some people like?

I didn't realise the fires were so dangerous and affected so many people. The news report I saw the other night was awful, its a huge tragedy so many people died.

Jones wrote:

It's horrendous and hard to believe that some of these have been started deliberately.
What are some people like?

Indeed, and even worse, apparantly in some cases the fire crews have battled for hours to get some fires under control, only for some moron to deliberately start them up again.

What is wrong with these people??!!

like a lot of things it puts a bit of snow and ice into perspective