Let this be a lesson to all of us

[Mike K]

It is relatively easy and inexpensive these days to install a sprinkler system inside and around a garage/shed. You can even activate the system from a mobile phone or have auto heat sensors to switch the system on. In the last big bushfire down in Gippsland, a guy lost his collection of restored Holdens, the local paper was full of sympathy for the guy, it ran a story with pics of the burnt out shed . I thought to myself , if that guy had spent 500 bucks on a sprinkler system he may still have his collection of lovely ? Holdens .

During the black Saturday fire storm , a friend of mine was working at Mt. Tassie, where the TV transmitters and ABC radio towers sit , my friend was there by himself . He watched the fire approach up the mountain side, he decided to shelter in the below ground car park , the fire destroyed the large generator room . BTW this fire was deliberately started by a local , the mentally disturbed idiot was caught. My friends boss rang him and asked if there was anything the ABC could do , my friend pleaded with the boss, " please take macca off the air "