Fire travelled down a fuel continuum from mountain forests through pine plantations, rural landscapes, nature reserves, roadside plantings into backyard gardens and combustible materials around dwellings, [Kambah, ACT, 18 January 2003] [picture] /

Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.; Inscriptions: Signed by the photographer in pencil on reverse; "21-08"--in pencil on reverse.; Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3513108; Purchased 2005. "Barritt Street Kambah at 1810 hrs, 18:01:2003. Properties adjacent to shrubby woodland reserves fared badly, as the ground and fine elevated shrub fuels, desiccated by drought and low humidity, produced intense and fast moving fires that ran straight into gardens that because of water restrictions suffered almost the same level of dryness as the drought stricken forests"--Note from the photographer