Wednesday, October 18, 2006
9:06 PM

Updates from yesterday's fire....

Seems to be better though smoke still can be seen beyond the canopy..We carried on as routine..
Within the chambers,we were surrounded by smoke & ashes from the burnt trees...But it was still ok..visiblity was fine...Around 1030am, things got worse...all 3 chambers were smoky and it's raining ashes...

A huge column of smoke can be seen on our right...probably 300m away from us on the reverse side of the other slope..It seems that fire have spread from a knoll to the other...The fire-fighters left the range this morning around 8am...and they were called in again 2hrs plus later..
Heard from the range warden that the fire-fighters have found the source & it's a concentrated location but they need to cut thru the perimeter fence in order to get to the spot.

Meanwhile,we saw more fire-engines,red rhino and a water tank was called in for action...i was telling my officers that they are lucky to serve NS in army rather than in civil defence..if not they will doing that now..haha...

By the time we left the range ( 1pm ), since we can't shoot...the whole range was smoky also..we can see that the slope is being engulfed by the flames...Looks like we are contributing to the haze problem too...haha

see that dense black smoke???

Got worse..you can be choked by the ashes within the chambers....

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