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Firies Effort was Simply Amazing
By Rachael VAUGHAN
RURAL Fire Brigade have been out on crew rotations since Monday 8 Jan, clocking up over a week of continuous fire fighting, back burning and clean up, which has seen the brigade go through more than a dozen crew rotations. A fire on Masonite Road at Tomago started off the more than week-long battle of working against extreme weather conditions. The KBDI (Keetch-Byran Drought Index), devised to measure the likelihood of wildfire based on soil moisture and other condition related to drought, measured Williamtown and surrounds at 150 on Sunday 14 January. Measurement scales go from zero, meaning no drought, through to 800, reflecting extreme drought.
q Harrison Wright, Andrew Collins, Ian harding and Gavin Smith swapping the crews over to head back out to the fire front that caused havoc for over a week from Tomago to Medowie.
The fire, thought to be started by a bolt of lightning, quickly lit up the hot, dry grass and the fire took off rapidly. Local brigades, had the fire under control by late Wednesday. Crews from Medowie assisted with keeping the smouldering area under control and from reigniting, only to have the intense weather create havoc again on Friday morning. Medowie RFB member Gavin Smith told News Of The Area, “On Friday morning, Raymond Terrace brigade were out doing a patrol with National Parks at the Masonite road site, and Medowie got a call around midday to assist with a crew and chainsaw operator to
Lightning Bolt By Rachael VAUGHAN
AFTER a week of intense
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heat and the mercury hitting tops of 46 locally, the thing we needed
most was rain, and the thing we needed least was lightning coming with it.
But come it did, and it brought a flash of drama with
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