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Warning for bushfire in Victoria’s west downgraded to ‘Advice’
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/17/2024
Victorian firefighters have spent the night battling a blaze in the state's west, one of several which broke out across Victoria yesterday, on the hottest December day since the black summer bushfires.
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The advice message remains in place for the fire ground after that bushfire started up
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yesterday at about 5pm at the Creswick State Forest on Melbourne Road.
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Today residents are being urged to stay informed and those are for the areas surrounding Creswick,
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that's Dean, Wattle Park, Clarks Hill and the Newland areas.
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Now that fire at this stage is not yet under control, it's actually burned through about
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200 hectares of the State Forest over the past sort of 12 hours.
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We have learned that that fire started at about 5pm last night and it spread quite rapidly
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over the next just two hours and within that time it was declared as an emergency and it
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was required that residents were told to evacuate that area.
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So the wind changed from a south easterly direction at about 6.30pm and was heading
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towards those towns which was causing some serious concerns for those authorities.
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About 250 firefighters and 58 trucks spent some time in the afternoon and evening trying
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to work to control the blaze.
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We spoke this morning to Chief Fire Officer Chris Hardman from the Forest Fire Management
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who thanked the communities for their hard work and here's what he had to say.
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I'd just like to acknowledge and thank the community for taking heed of our warnings
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last night and those people in the path of that fire evacuating but really terrific work
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by our firefighters making sure that no assets have been lost.
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We're not certain if there are any minor assets but certainly no reports of any house losses
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at the moment.
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So here in Creswick about a dozen residents in total that we know of ended up being evacuated
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from those areas.
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It was a difficult day right across the state and further into the night with those soaring
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temperatures up near Mildura in Walpia.
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It got to 47.1 degrees which is actually the fifth highest temperature recorded anywhere
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in Victoria.
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It's only 17 to 18 degrees there now this morning.
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It's definitely more favourable conditions here in Ballarat region as well where it's
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just hitting sort of the mid-teens and we even saw a little bit of rain this morning
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making for sort of more favourable conditions for those fireys to continue their work out
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at the Creswick State Forest.
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