"Glee" is indeed an unfortunate way of putting it. I've rubbed shoulders with many scientists, I'm a self-confessed Green. Nobody I've ever met in these fields would use this term or feel this way. Terms the press use at times, however, are a different matter.

Jennie -- On a happy note -- the little town were I bought your chocolates was saved. Looked like going most of yesterday -- but they saved it.

The Bendigo fire, while still serious, looks like being controlled.

The little towns in the Mountain Ash forest and the other forests east of Melbourne are in bad shape. Kinglake and Marysville may be completely lost. Being caught in a car in a bushfire is the stuff of nightmares. So hard to stay put in your home with a bushfire bearing down on you. There was no way to give the people of Kinglake enough warning to make an early decision about whether to go or stay.
Several of the warnings about other smaller, but still potentially life-threatening fires, state bluntly that there will be no fire crews available to help.

Just rang my daughter. She's going back home. For the moment their area is safe. "Mum the fire is at least ten minutes away!" She means up-wind I know. My other daughter is in a houseboat beside an island in a lake. She sent a photo on her mobile phone that just shows thick smoke. They should be OK too. She knows to stay put.