The night I was born ...

The night I was born
I swear the moon turned a fire red - Voodo Child/Jimi Hendrix

Australia is burning and the sky is a bloody red, just a reminder this is just the beginning of climate altogether different as we enter the 2020s.

The fires have been so fierce that they have created their own weather systems and forced volunteer firefighters to work around the clock. On Monday night, a volunteer firefighter died after a phenomenon called a fire tornado — turbulence caused by extreme rising heat — in New South Wales caused a 10-ton fire truck to roll over.

The firefighter, Samuel McPaul, 28, was due to become a father in May. He was the third volunteer firefighter to die this fire season; the other two were fathers of young children.

Don't worry, 6 months from now its our turn.