Firefighters in Victoria, Australia have been very busy in recent days fighting numerous bushfires. Approximately 10 homes and 23 outbuildings have burned.
The Guardian reports that three crews from the Country Fire Authority were overrun by fire.
…Three CFA crews, in two separate incidents, were lucky to escape when their vehicles became trapped when a storm cell ran into the smoke plume at Scotsburn, pushing the fire to the west while the winds came from the north.
“That actually caught firefighters out,” Lapsley said.
The trapped crews activated the sprinklers over the trucks and huddled under fire retardant blankets until the danger had passed.
