Deadly threat

Too many of us have become complacent about fire.
Hot and blustery, Monday 18 January 2016 had been declared a day of Total Fire Ban.
Yet, inexplicably, Endeavour Hills was abuzz with lawn mowers, with council contractors en masse pole sawing and chipping branches from nature strips, and with builders grinding in a haze of concrete dust in their efforts to reconstruct a house destroyed by fire last year.
Meanwhile an out-of-control fire threatened all at Crib Point, until a life-saving southerly blew its embers north; embers settling on window sills to remind all who choose to risk life and property that fire is, indeed, a deadly master.
Jill Dawson,
Endeavour Hills.