The CFA District 12 crew left a passionate plea yesterday to residents in the areas surrounding the fires, and it’s a sentiment shared by exhausted crews across the state of Victoria.<\/p>\n
“All of our hard hitting, in depth posts have warned you about these conditions,” it wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“It is the first catastrophic day in our area since Black Saturday. 160 people died on Black Saturday in the District 12 response area.<\/p>\n
“We already have a lot of fire in the landscape. With townships being impacted right now.<\/p>\n
“We are already extremely busy. Crews are doing the very best they can, but resources are stretched.<\/p>\n
“If you have not enacted your fire plan, you are out of time to hesitate. Enact your fire plan NOW.<\/p>\n
“Stay informed. This page is not your source of emergency information. We are too busy to be social media. We will not be replying to comments.<\/p>\n
“Do not rely on a fire truck arriving at your door. We cannot help you if we cannot get to you. Conditions are going to get worse.<\/p>\n
Leave Early. And we mean leave. Don\u2019t become a rescue mission. Don\u2019t add to the load and risk for our amazing crews.<\/p>\n
Get out and leave early while you still can. PLEASE.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CFA District 12 crew left a passionate plea yesterday to residents in the areas surrounding the fires,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,212718,14240,3286,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-401038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-catastrophic-fire","11":"tag-extreme-heat","12":"tag-heatwave","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}