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richms:More importantly than your daily shortland street fix is all the other comms gear that will be up there. Also FM probably.
All of which can be replaced relatively easily. Or perhaps the lost helicopter pilot, and 5 homes so far, and all the rest of the damage is of concern?
In the morning all this will triple overnight as they cannot work on it apart from fire engines, so it will expand away. Victoria Park is alight, apparently the new Adventure Park is toast.
Sorry, back to the TV and radio issue at SugarLoaf
tdgeek:All of which can be replaced relatively easily. Or perhaps the lost helicopter pilot, and 5 homes so far, and all the rest of the damage is of concern?
In the morning all this will triple overnight as they cannot work on it apart from fire engines, so it will expand away. Victoria Park is alight, apparently the new Adventure Park is toast.
Sorry, back to the TV and radio issue at SugarLoaf
Shoes2468:tdgeek:
All of which can be replaced relatively easily. Or perhaps the lost helicopter pilot, and 5 homes so far, and all the rest of the damage is of concern?
In the morning all this will triple overnight as they cannot work on it apart from fire engines, so it will expand away. Victoria Park is alight, apparently the new Adventure Park is toast.
Sorry, back to the TV and radio issue at SugarLoaf
Like Richms said there is a lot of important Comms stuff in there, some of which is likely being used to assisting fighting the fire, also a landmark for Christchurch area
P.s I don't watch Shortland street
Yep, comms stuff, that the main thing.
clinty: From memory there is a good fire break around the transmitter, but that is no gauruntee.
This fire does seem to have a mind of its own
Ground crews seem to have responded based on the webcam shot tvnz 1 just showed live
From memory its well up from the car park, and its low cut. The fire in the pic which I saw from the overhead bridge just up the road (Aidanfield) seemed to be near the carpark, or the the left.
The winds are the issue. Strong, but varying. Daughter talked to a fire team, the changing wind is the issue, if its one direction, they can plan to that, but its variable, so the fire is variable.
tdgeek:Shoes2468:tdgeek:All of which can be replaced relatively easily. Or perhaps the lost helicopter pilot, and 5 homes so far, and all the rest of the damage is of concern?
In the morning all this will triple overnight as they cannot work on it apart from fire engines, so it will expand away. Victoria Park is alight, apparently the new Adventure Park is toast.
Sorry, back to the TV and radio issue at SugarLoaf
Like Richms said there is a lot of important Comms stuff in there, some of which is likely being used to assisting fighting the fire, also a landmark for Christchurch area
P.s I don't watch Shortland streetYep, comms stuff, that the main thing.
There is a bit of area between the sugarloaf and the forest and also quite a few wireless links... Hopefully it'll survive.
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Here's the view of Sugarloaf from a different angle. Looks like it's still pretty safe, but as it's all very volatile it'll be a good idea to keep mobiles charged and AM radios tuned in.
Two or three houses have been destroyed on Worsley Spur, in addition to four burned down earlier today. This corrects an earlier statement which said 40 homes were lost.
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