October 11, 2013

South Burnett Regional Council workers and an urban fire crew quickly brought a small fire at the Nanango landfill under control this morning.

The fire, in a stack of green waste, was reported to emergency services about 8:35am.

The landfill, in Findlay Road, was closed for a short time until the fire had been contained.

Firefighters left the scene about 10:00am.

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Smoke haze around Kingaroy this afternoon has come from a fire burning in the Barakula State Forest, 45km north of Chinchilla.

The fire was first reported on Tuesday at 10:00am and has been burning since then, creating a lot of smoke.

An Emergency Services spokesman said forestry personnel were on the scene, and backburning had taken place.

Fire crews are monitoring the blaze and will be on site overnight.

Barakula State Forest is the largest State Forest in the Southern Hemisphere and supplies much of Queensland’s cypress pine timber.

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