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Emergency warning in place as blaze continues to threaten Cervantes
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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11/28/2024
Tony O’Gorman is the Dandaragan Shire president and says strong winds since Monday have helped spread the fires.
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The fire started on Monday at about 11 o'clock, I believe, and it's been burning solidly ever
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since.
00:09
We've had really strong winds that were whipping around from the northeast down to the southwest,
00:15
and today we've had particularly strong easterly winds.
00:18
So it has moved the fire around a lot, and each time that the fire and emergency services
00:24
people thought that they had a good containment line in place, the wind direction changed
00:29
and changed the position of attack on the fire.
00:33
So it's spread across, I think, about 48 kilometers is the front at the moment on the western
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side of the fire ground, and we've actually asked people in Cervantes to evacuate yesterday.
00:46
We had our evacuation center open.
00:49
We still have it open in Durian Bay, but unfortunately now we've had to ask people in Cervantes,
00:54
if you haven't left you must stay in place.
00:56
It is not safe to leave, so keep an eye on the emergency WA website for updates, and
01:05
you'll see when you'll be able to move out of that area.
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Can you describe the country that it's burnt through so far?
01:13
Look, it's pretty much scrubland that it's burnt through so far.
01:17
I do believe it's hit one of our local stations, Nambung station, and has burnt in some of
01:23
that area, but generally it's actually reserve land that it has been burning in, and it's
01:30
quite difficult to fight.
01:33
There are some, in the southern area of that, there are some unexploded ordnance because
01:37
we've got the Lancelin training area just south of where we are, and the fireys can't
01:45
obviously go in there in their on-ground vehicles, so they're attacking that fire with the fixed-wing aircraft.
01:54
We have four of those fighting the fire at the moment, and we've got two helitanks fighting
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the fires.
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And we're about to receive two light air tankers coming from the eastern states.
02:06
I believe they're already here in WA, and we're expecting them to be attacking the fire
02:12
in the next hour or two.
02:13
And we've just been seeing some images of the scrubland that it's been burning through.
02:17
The scrub kind of looks pretty green, but the fire has been pretty intense, has it?
02:24
The fire has been very intense, as I said, because the wind keeps changing.
02:30
Fortunately for us, we've just completed an east-west runway at the Jurien Bay airport,
02:36
and the firebombers have been able to land regardless of the wind direction.
02:40
If this hadn't happened last year, we would not have been able to land.
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We had easterly winds.
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