[LINK] home emergencies

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 11:44 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Thanks for this technical advice. Others(?) may differ. I guess we might
> be taking a different philosophical approach. You rightly give excellent
> personal defend-yourself advice. An everyman-to-himself philosophy. Good
> advice for you & me, we can swing any metal bucket, not so good for dear
> Mrs Jones, or Fred with his gammy leg or the nice young misses & yung'un
> just new in town and hasn't mowed.

You're doing it again. Selectively taking a part and making it the
whole.

I said people should either leave early OR prepare to defend themselves.
Coincidentally what the fire services have been saying for many weeks
now. The people you describe should leave. Early. And everyone should
help them do so.

> Being told directly by Jim, over State/National emergency comms systems
> (logically digital-CB-radio?) and our local two-unit CFA Captain that a
> third outbreak was just over the hill and heading towards town at three
> in the morning would be MUCH better than ALL not being told this by Jim.

So - ALL are listening, are they? I thought they were asleep in their
beds? If so, WHY are they asleep in their beds? If that fire is just
over the hill, and you are still in bed, the warning has come too late
for you to do anything constructive except something you should need no
warning to do. If you are NOT in bed, then you will already know that
the fire is coming because you will have been outside with a hose at
regular intervals over the past few hours, and you will have seen it,
heard it and smelt it.

> Sure it's everyone for themselves, but with communication, it also isnt

I certainly didn't say it's everyone for themselves. What a daft idea.
  
> Maybe insurance companies may be happy to supply 'free' home-comms units?

Interesting practical test of the theory that they will do a blind bit
of good. On the other hand, it's sometimes hard to tell actuarial fact
from marketing BS these days.

Regards, K.

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