"It was deeply distressing. We had a newborn and a 6-year-old. We'd never experienced anything like that before. We woke up at 7 in the morning and the sky was pitch black. We ended up being evacuated from there but before we left the filtration plant was out, the telecommunications were down, the sewage system was damaged, the supermarket had run out of water, it felt deeply unsafe."
Na saunoa Professor David Bowman, o le University of Tasmania Fire Centre, o mū e ono soso’o nei, e telē le avanoa e matuā sili atu ona malolosi ma mata’utia.
"It could have been much much worse. There were just a set of favourable circumstances that reduce what would have been a truly jaw-dropping, globally catastrophic fire event. And so the question is are we just riding on luck? We need to invest money in our interfaces to make our towns and cities safe and until we get around to doing that we're just taking a bet and we could wake up one day and realise the bet didn't pay off."
I se ripoti tu’ufa’atasi e pulega o fui mū ma le Climate Council i Ausetalia, o loo ta'ua ai le tulaga lamatia o le atunu’u mai itu’aiga mū e pei ona molimauina i Los Angeles i le tausaga na te'a nei.
Na fa’aalia e Greg Mullins, na avea ma Komesina o le fuimū ma ‘au’aunaga lavea’i i NSW, e iai vaega o pitonu’u o loo li'o ai taulaga o Sini, Perth Melbourne ma Adelaide, e tai tutusa lava ma pitonu’u o loo li'o ai LA.
"We looked at places like the Blue Mountains, the central coast in New South Wales, Sydney suburbs, the Yarra Ranges, Dandenongs, Adelaide hills, Perth hills and around Hobart, and of course Canberra, and they share with Los Angeles steep wooded hills and mountains, very dense vegetation, worsening fire weather driven by climate change, and periodic days where we just have catastrophic winds and fire weather."
Na ta'ua e Professor Bowman e iai vaega e sili atu ai ona lamatia pitonu’u o Ausetalia nai lo Kalifonia.
"Sometimes we have even more extreme fire weather than California. We have a desert just like California has inland. And so that hot air coming out of the desert can come blasting out of the desert with these very strong winds, which are like the world's biggest hairdryer. And they're just gonna dry everything out."
E lata i le 7 miliona tagata i Ausetalia o loo nonofo i le li'o o vaega ‘ele’ele nei i pitonu’u i fafo atu o taulaga tetele o le a lamatia mai mū malolosi ma mata’utia e pei ona molimauina i LA.
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