I do not know who put this together but it shows some of the Australian bushfire photos. I just printed an incoming email.
Add these graphics to the story covered by MichaelMaltby in post 308 for a wider appreciation of the debacle.
There have been dozens of Royal Commissions and Judicial Inquiries since 1939 that pretty much universally make the same recommendations which are never acted on
And the claims that water bombers are a waste of resources always follow when the water bombers are used to fight an out of control fire, but never from the firefighters whose lives are saved by the targeted deluge near them. Canadair, original makers of the "superscoopers" emphasized after the Blue Mountains fires in about 2003 that the bombers would have stopped that fire if they were used as they should be - when the fire first starts and is confined to a few hundred acres.