VICTORIAN Premier Steve Bracks has been taken to task by a Gippsland Country Fire Authority (CFA) captain for not heeding warnings about bushfire dangers.
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Hi All

The following NASA web address has up to date brilliant satelite photos of the fires that can be viewed without special programs:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/

The following gives the current picture at this time:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2003023-0123/Australia.A2003023.0350.1km.jpg