The forest fire in the Orol Valley two years ago is still an irreversible shadow in the hearts of the people of Canberra, Australia.
At 1:38 pm on January 27, 2020, a fire broke out in the Orol Valley in the Namadgi National Park in the southern part of the Australian capital Canberra .
About an hour after the fire broke out, the fire had rapidly expanded the range of burning nearly doubled, and "mushroom-like" smoke clouds emerged!
After a while, the black smoke turned the nearby area from day to night.
Just from the smoke that covers the sky, it is not difficult to see how rapidly the fire spreads!
When the fire department of ACT (Australia Capital Special Zone) found out the location of the fire, the fire had begun to sweep the woodland, turning the Orol Valley into a hellish scene.
The trees and lawns here are all trapped in a sea of fire, and the crackling sounds of burning throughout the valley.
Then the local government department immediately responded and dispatched up to 19 fire brigades across the city to rush to the fire scene.
But when they drove in from outside the fire area, the firefighters really realized how terrifying the fire was...
Some locations burned to the side of the main road that residents usually pass through. It almost made it difficult for even the rescue vehicle to drive over the burning high temperature. The scene was terrible just thinking about it!
And some locations were directly blocked by the fire, and even the firefighters who had been through many battles could only sigh.
Seeing that the firefighters were temporarily helpless, the relevant departments dispatched 11 helicopters and large aerial refueling machines to bombard the fire area and spray fire extinguishing powder.
However, this fire is far more "stubborn" than imagined. Even in the face of various strong fire extinguishing measures, its fire has no intention of weakening at all.
even became more and more intense. The big trees that were originally standing tall on the top of the mountain fell down one by one...
This fire was as fierce as a crater about to erupt...
The formation was like not stopping until the entire forest was burned...
Not only that, it later crossed the border and destroyed many houses in the Bumbalong community in New South Wales.
Wherever the fire reached, there was only a ruin left in the past...
Cars and other cars were burned to a shell...
Later, it took a full five weeks before the forest fire in the Oroll Valley was finally barely extinguished.
But the firefighters' work has not been completely completed, and they are still looking for any flames that may be burned repeatedly in the valley.
Namadgi National Park almost never survived, and it was burned to the point of only branches...
The entire valley was completely out of life and fell into a dead silence...
Finally, according to statistics from relevant departments, this forest fire destroyed a total of about 80% (82,700 hectares) of the entire Namadgi National Park!
In addition, 22% (about 1444 hectares) of the land in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the surrounding 3350 hectares of rural land were all destroyed...
Even in September 2020, the personnel who surveyed the fire area found that it was still difficult to recover.
How did this fire cause?
In fact, shortly after the forest fire broke out in the Orol Valley, the relevant departments had learned that the fire was caused by the landing searchlight of a helicopter on , which caused the hay to overheat and ignite, which caused the fire.
According to the defense document, within 3-5 seconds after the helicopter landed, the searchlight temperature ignited the hay, and then the wings blew and the fire spread rapidly.
In the attached picture of this file, there are also photos taken by the helicopter pilot when he left the scene...
But the local government has never found out why the helicopter landed there. ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr also believes that there is no need to investigate the cause of the fire:
" I don't think it's necessary to find someone to be responsible for the fire, and it won't calm any fire at all.
The only value of all this is to learn lessons about the operation of such equipment in similar bushfire scenarios in the future! ”
However, such perfunctory explanations seem to give people a feeling of wanting to hide something, and the Australian people are not buying it.
Previously, Kim, a resident of the Bumbalong community and deputy captain of the Collinton Rural Fire Brigade, Kim Templeton once said that he was very suspicious of the Ministry of Defense's honesty of the description of the cause and reaction of the fire:
"They can clearly take photos of the scene, but they can't call the fire department immediately?
This seems to be incomprehensible, so we just want to know the truth. The Ministry of Defense may have concealed some facts. Everyone tried to deceive us and denied that there were any problems behind the fire. Why can't we tell the truth directly?"
Later, with the protests from the public, coupled with the help of more and more relevant personnel of the ACT government, we finally began to conduct further in-depth investigations into the cause of the fire.
Until recently, the investigation court came up with a stunning truth-
At that time, before the forest fire broke out in the Orol Valley, an army helicopter code-named ANGEL21 was carrying out a mission near Namadgi National Park to investigate the nearby remote aprons that can be used by external fire brigades.
One of the army majors suddenly felt anxious on the way, so they asked the crew if they could land temporarily and let him get some relief. After getting the approval, they stopped on a tarmac that was not their investigation line.
But I didn’t expect that because the fog was too heavy that day, they forgot to turn off the searchlight before landing. This mistake was the culprit of the entire forest fire!
But what is really unacceptable is that they immediately flew away from the scene after the fire broke out, but did not notify the fire department to come for rescue as soon as possible.
, but only reported an emergency to the flying tower, and did not report the fire location...
caused a fire due to a small mistake in its own way, and it did not report the rescue in time, which eventually led to the big tragedy .
This approach is really hard to accept...
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