open mike -

I was visiting friends in Adelaide (South Australia) back in the late 80's, a few years after devestating bushfires. My friends took me for a ride in the Hills & pointed out a ruin where the owner told them he'd be ok in any fire - he had a pump & swimming pool. Unfortunately the electricity supply was an early casualty of the fires, and I think the bloke might have died, too, certainly folks were killed in those fires.

sandra