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Crews to keep watch over fire ahead of more danger
Firefighters will keep a close eye on a massive blaze in Victoria’s west, AAP reports. The more than 22,000-hectare Bayindeen fire, west of Ballarat, was contained yesterday – a week after it started.
You can have a tree that might smoulder a kilometre in from the edge and it might flare up there. Sometimes, you’ll get root systems in old stumps and things like that [that will] smoulder under the ground and then they’ll re-emerge in a couple of weeks.
That’s why we’ll continue to have patrols and not leave that fire unattended in any way, shape or form. To say that 20,000 hectares will be completely extinguished is just not something we could actually achieve.
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