If the news I saw was of the fire you're talking about, a ditch is only going to help if you want to sit in it while the fire passes overhead. Those flames were tens of metres high. You'd need to buldoze a strip hundreds of meters wide for many kilometres.

There were horrific bushfires in New South Wales at the start of this year. We even rented a helicopter from the US to help put it out. They caught a volunteer firefighter who was supposed to have started many of the fires too.


Hope you all stay safe.