Kangaroo Island has gone three rounds with out of control fires and half the island is now toast. We have been in the red emergency zone each time and though we are as yet untouched, the ring of fires that go to sleep each night creep a little closer every day and we are on an eternal watch and wait. We have unburned land just east of the firegrounds with fires creeping closer from the S and SW too. Our place, like the farming land south has shelter belts and cleared paddocks with thick roadside vegetation.  In a crescent around us to the north, on hills and steep slopes between us and the sea is a swathe of thick bushland  that is still habitat. It will be an inferno if it goes up. If our land catches fire there are only a few hundred metres left for it to travel and get into that Bush. Koalas, echidnas, kangaroos, Tamar wallabies, way too many possums, the odd goanna and myriad birds all show up at our place. At the moment, with nothing more to meet the flames than a watering can we just have to cut and run (with 6 humans, 6 cats, 3 dogs, 3 wallabies, 1 alpaca, a milking goat and baby goat, 11 chicks & 1 rat ) every time it’s declared an emergency zone... (leaving behind the ducks, turkeys, chickens, one horse and a mob of personality plus sheep) Meanwhile west of me, my soul sister with her antique fire truck has been putting out every fire like a rhinocerous and has managed to keep her 100 acres a sanctuary for our wild horses, the roos we’ve all raised and soft released and their wild brethren alike. The fires could go on for weeks, it’s definitely getting wearisome for everyone here. With a farm firefighting unit we can pull water from the dam & could put out fires from embers blown on the wind before they go nuts... and in peace time water all the young trees my son has planted and watered by hand for three years. I know all the farms with farm fire fighting units are a big asset to the cfs crews called to the fire fronts. Without that the most helpful thing one can do is get out of the way in good timing... if you feel to help then I just say thankyou, little amounts add up... 
I do feel a little weird about this as - protected over and over from imminent danger, we truly haven’t been affected the way others have... so far... but friends keep wanting to help in some practical way as well as sending wonderful peaceful, calm, soggy wet thoughts of protection... I haven’t been able to work through all this, my work shack has been our evac camp lol, but we are totally fine in all practical daily ways. A farm fire fighting unit, either trailered or on the back of the ute is the only thing we need in order to make more of a difference.