The easing weather conditions have allowed firefighters to gain control over dozens of fires that have destroyed homes and threatened rural towns in Queensland and New South Wales. Only one fire remains at emergency status, while others are at watch and act and advice levels. A cool southerly change is expected to further assist firefighters in reducing fire dangers across major fire zones.
Easing weather conditions are helping firefighters get on top of dozens of fires rampaging through regional communities across two states that have destroyed dozens of homes and threatened several rural towns .In Queensland and NSW there is now just one fire at emergency status , with dozens at watch and act and advice level 53 homes have been destroyed in the Queensland town of Tara
More than six crews fought the large fast-moving fire, near Warwick about 160 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, with fire fighters working to protect property along the New England Highway.As hot temperatures and strong winds whipped up blazes in Queensland and New South Wales yesterday, the small border town of Wallangarra, about 250 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, was narrowly saved from a fast-moving fire.
"The wind just carried it all over here … the Sun was fiery orange, I was pretty terrified," he said. New South Wales Rural Fire Service spokesperson Shellie Smyth said residents from Jennings had been evacuated overnight after an emergency warning was issued. Residents of Tenterfield, about 20 kilometres south, had several fires burning at emergency status close to the town of almost 7,000 people on Tuesday night, before one by one they were downgraded to watch and act.Dundee Rural Fire Brigade Captain Tim Alt said the nature of the Scrub Road blaze east of town changed quickly as the wind whipped up on Tuesday afternoon.
As of Tuesday night, the NSW Rural Fire Service could not confirm whether properties were lost during the day. Paul McVeigh, mayor of Western Downs Regional Council, said the loss had had a huge impact on the community. Last night the fires continued to burn around Tara and in about 40 other Queensland locations with emergency warnings to leave immediately issued for Dalveen, near Stanthorpe, and Kiamba, near Nambour on the Sunshine Coast.
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