Snapshot taken during a Melbourne to Sydney flight capturing the Longwood Fire.

Three people, including a child, remain unaccounted for in Longwood. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said personal hardships grants have been activated for residents affected by bushfires. Several homes and structures have been lost in the small township of Ruffy, about 100km (60miles) north of Melbourne, which is the state’s largest active blaze. Many roads including the Hume Highway between Violet Town and Seymour remain closed. Authorities have urged Victorians to cancel non-essential travel. A damaging wind warning has been issued for most of Victoria. Damaging gusts of up to 110km/h (68mph) are forecast, but winds are expected to ease throughout the evening. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/live-blog/bushfires-australia-victoria-heatwave/1twq18j8p

Just to update you and for others, thankfully the three have been found safe. Unbelievably lucky

[Pyrocumuls cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammagenitus_cloud).

They can make black rain depending on the smoke

That’s one holy heck of a perspective on that!

That is terrifying and beautiful at the same time

looks like a volcano erupted!

Fuuuuck

Fire?? Phooaaaarrr is more like.

It is terrible, we should do something about it. Such as not using unsustainable resources like long flights to entertain ourselves because we’re bored and want some content to impress friends with on social media. Or we can keep ignoring climate science, and keep trusting salesmen who say it’s someone else’s problem so that we’ll keep buying their unsustainable products, and join in with the excuse that everyone shares among themselves.

What do you think we should do about it? Wildfires have happened since pre-history. They aren’t something new.

Drought to this extent and wildfires of this size have not though.

According to the [IPCC](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/), one part of Australia has had a decrease in droughts, and one part has had an increase in droughts, both with low confidence that they were partially caused by humans. The IPCC has also [concluded](https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-2/) that “the net reduction in land area burnt globally during 1998–2015 was –24.3 ± 8.8%.”

big bread cloud