'I could smell the hair on my face cooking': At the scene of the blow-up | natassiazc nampix
There was a massive roar before millions of embers filled the air. A block of thick bush, about 300 metres long and 50 metres deep, blew up at once. Flames over 100 metres tall licked the night sky.chief photographer Nick Moir had been at the Green Wattle Creek fire, just south-west of Sydney, since 5.30pm on Thursday as it burned at emergency level and threatened homes.
"Immediately we retreated, counted our numbers, and established where our friends and other firefighters were as visibility dropped to metres."Visibility on the fireground disappears in stages: thousands of embers light up the sky before the smoke sweeps through and it feels like being engulfed by a dense fog.
Such an event is called a "blow-up" in fire terminology: a sudden increase in fire intensity or a rate of spread strong enough that it disrupts any plans that were in place to control it.Moir was waiting with RFS and Fire and Rescue NSW at the northern edge to the east of the Green Wattle Creek fire when it happened.
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