CANBERRA, Australia: Emergency crews were working to protect the Outback Australian town of Tennant Creek with containment lines on Wednesday as a huge wildfire threatened the remote community of 3,000.
The fire has scorched 10,000 square kilometers of grass and scrubland in the Northern Territory east of Tennant Creek, a former gold mining town.Police Acting Commander James Gray-Spence said authorities had worked through the night to burn protective containment lines east and south of the town.'There is a high level of confidence that those containment lines are in place, planned and prepared,' Gray-Spence told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
But teams were also using water bombers and strategic backburning against the fire near Tennant Creek which began last week.Charles Darwin University wildfire researcher Rohan Fisher said the fire was unusual in its large size and that it was encroaching on a community. Fires rarely threaten communities in Australia's sparsely populated north.'It is one of the largest events that we've seen for a while,' Fisher said.
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