Southern Free Times - 30th October 2014

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Week commencing mmencing g Thursd Thursday, 30 October | 2014 | Edition 756

$40 million expansion

Fred’s a top Aussie

Seconds in the saddle

Local sports wrap

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Multiple fire crews, with the help of National Parks and Southern Downs Regional Council, have been busy back-burning around dozens of properties in the Eukey/Ballandeen area in a bid to keep them safe. If conditions were favourable, parts of nearby Girraween National Park would also be targeted, Mr Thompson said. Southern Downs Regional Council has provided a water truck and grazers and bulldozers to help clear shrubbery and bolster fire breaks. Thousands of acres are estimated to have been burnt and smoke could be seen and smelt as far north as Warwick yesterday morning. There are reports several

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THREE aircraft water bombers have been called in to help battle a large bushfire burning east of Ballandean. No properties were under threat as of yesterday morning, but fire and emergency services were bracing themselves for possible flare-ups with extreme fire conditions forecast later in the day. The situation took a turn for the worse on Tuesday afternoon, with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) issuing a Watch and Act alert for residents from Doctors Creek Road to Parrish Lane advising them to enact their bushfire plans or evacuate as the then uncontrolled blaze raced towards the area.

Glen Aplin Brigade volunteer Mick Thompson has been on the ground fighting the inferno since it sparked on Monday. “I’ve just been going home and having a quick sleep and then coming back,” he said yesterday. Mr Thompson said he and his counterparts hoped to contain the fire that day, weather permitting, with the help of aerial attack. “At this stage it is looking good, we will have aircraft water bombers here in about halfan-hour and they can assist us to steer the fire to where we want it to go,” he said. “At the moment it is along Eukey Road and we are hoping to get it contained between Eukey and Pyramids roads.”

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