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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 623303" data-attributes="member: 5328">G'dayCanberra as such is now out of danger, though inhabitants of many smaller communities nearby are now facing their crisis, and graziers are contemplating the loss of their feed, fences, and stock, and hoping at best to save their homesteads and sheds.The tally of loss in Canberra stands at four lives, 402 homes, two high schools, two medical centres, an astronomical observatory, its workshops, over 2,200 sheep, 20 cattle, one horse, 30,000-40,000 hectares of forests and plantations, and a list of other stuff. Several hundred people have been injured, sixty or more of them seriously, and at least four are badly burned. The salient facts are being updated at <<a href="http://www.esb.act.gov.au/media/bushfire.htm" target="_blank">www.esb.act.gov.au/media/bushfire.htm</a>>.The administrative buildings and storage buildings at the RSPCA animal shelter were destroyed, but a couple of people showed up unbidden and managed to save the kennels and the cattery and their contents.The water pumping station and the sewage treatment works damaged by fire on Saturday are back in operation.Regards,Agback</blockquote>