Originally Posted by simple_gifts
No one's thinking possible photoshop?
Not diminishing the seriousness of the fire, but there appears to be foliage on trees just feet away.
I guess i don't care either way; a melted subaru is least of the area's worries.
Not that uncommon, just google bushfire images and you will see lots of burnt out houses with trees still standing in the background showing leaves. Sometimes the trees burn up completely, sometimes the leaves just carbonise in place, like when paper burns but you can still see the writing on the ash.
With eucalyptus (gum) trees it's the eucalyptus oil that gives the plant its distinctive smell, and help preserve it in times of drought, but this oil is also the major fuel in bushfires. That's why eucalyptus trees — especially the blue gums (Eucalyptus globulus) that are common throughout New South Wales — are sometimes referred to wryly as "gasoline trees." Many of these burnt gum trees should recover after the fires.
I can't speak for this actual photo above. But I have walk through the bush after fires, and it's very spotty in places, with collapsed trees here and blackened but standing trees there (many with blackened but in place leaves). The same area had a road sign, the steel post was still standing fine, but the aluminium sign had melted into puddles on the ground. The sign post above looks ok, but like I said, bushfires can be very spotty with vortexes and hot spots. Standing houses next to burnt houses in the same street.