>>7493743Because Tasmania shares their equipment with South Australia and they are ignoring us probably they don't know we are even part of the country. They use helicopters that can carry 9.5 tons of water. The pissy little local helicopters can only carry a ton at a time. One metre cubed, hardly anything.
Due to the smoke spreading for kilometres from the front of the fires, people had trouble putting them out because they couldn't see them easily. Also because it was *a lot* of fire.