I went back to work on Wednesday. I couldn't leave at my usual time because I discovered that one of my headlights wasn't working, so I waited until it was light enough for me to use my sidelights.
All was going well at work - until I had an alert from the Vic Emergency app to say that there was a (small) bushfire on Mount Buninyong.
Lindsey, Freyja, and Emily in Vancouver also got the alert.
Then the alert was changed to a Watch and Act, for Buninyong and Scotsburn.
Freyja told me that Ross had closed the bookshop, but that the cafes in Buninyong were carrying on.
The fire was on the south side of Mount Buninyong, so probably wasn't, under the prevailing conditions, a threat to Mount Helen.
Lindsey and I, who were together in Reservoir, kept our ears tuned to the app alerts.
It was a lot more disconcerting when the app alerted us to a bushfire in Mount Clear, near the Woowookarung forest. If it would take a mighty effort for the Mount Buninyong fire to get to us, a fire in Mount Clear could just stroll up along the trees and grassland by the side of the main road. Fortunately, it was quite a small fire, but that can change very quickly.
I decided to come home, just in case. I could, if necessary, rescue the cats and grab important documents from both my place and Hill House.
Mount Buninyong looked like the active volcano it once was, as I drove along Yankee Flat Road. Billows of smoke erupting from one side.
The Mount Clear fire was under control by the time I got to Mount Helen. Buninyong was not, but still wasn't considered a threat to Mount Helen. All was calm at my place, although it was quite smokey.
And all remains calm. Mount Buninyong isn't yet properly out but the mount isn't smoking like a volcano about to erupt. As far as I am aware, Mount Clear is extinguished.
I have to say, I wasn't expecting fire alerts on Wednesday. The weather wasn't doing anything exceptional. It was rather a nice day, all things considered.
Brandy and Whiskey were entirely unfazed by the fire alerts
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