Video: Australian Bushfire Overruns Firetruck

Wonder what the temp was outside the truck...

That's a pretty damn tense video.

Those tail lights from the vehicle in front.. What happened to it? You don't see it later in the video.

That’s the point where i would legit be scared.

Fire like that moves so freaking fast

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I guess Australia finally got tired of all those big spiders

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Reminds me of a story my father-in-law told me. Back in the late 70's, the family lived in Blaxland in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. They had some bad fires that year, and they got to within a few blocks of their house. He was up on the roof with the garden hose, just trying to put out the hot embers that were falling. He said he saw this black cloud approaching, and then he was enveloped in it. The cloud were all of the flying insects escaping from the smoke. It took about 10-15 seconds for it to pass him. It was a bizarre thing to see.

And tons of kangaroos hauling arse. He said at times there would be as many as 20 or 30 hopping down the street at a time.

Looks like they made the truck out of the same material as they make airplane black boxes