{"id":285389,"date":"2020-11-16T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=285389"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T09:57:58","slug":"busy-weekend-for-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/11\/16\/busy-weekend-for-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend For Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285399\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285399\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201115wooroolin-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fire in the Wooroolin Wetlands flared up again on Sunday evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>November 16, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were kept busy over the weekend with a number of new fires breaking out, and older incidents flaring up.<\/p>\n<p>At Maidenwell, a helicopter was called in to drop water on a blaze which broke out near Coomba Falls just after 10:00am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, police put out an appeal for people to keep away as would-be swimmers, hoping to cool off in the waterhole, were still heading to the area despite the plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:30pm on Sunday, QFES reported the fire was under control.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, one fire unit was still at the incident.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 11:30am on Sunday, firefighters were called to a grassfire near Back Creek and Cooyar-Rangemore roads at <strong>Cooyar<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0This fire was also creating a lot of smoke in the Cooyar area and at 3:40pm QFES issued an advice warning for local residents as the fire was travelling eastwards. On Monday morning, the area was being patrolled to check for no flare-ups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefighters were also back in action at the <strong>Wooroolin Wetlands<\/strong> on Sunday evening as last week&#8217;s fire near Sportsground Road flared up .\u00a0This was quickly brought under control but motorists were warned to drive carefully on the adjacent Bunya Highway due to the smoke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A fire which broke near Pedersens Road at <strong>Dangore<\/strong> on Thursday afternoon was still burning over the weekend.\u00a0On Monday morning there was still one fire crew at the blaze, but no properties were under threat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A fire broke out near Dray and Thornside roads at <strong>Widgee<\/strong> on Saturday afternoon. This\u00a0was being monitored by the QFES on Monday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire crews were called on Sunday morning to a blaze near Running Creek Road at <strong>Kilkivan<\/strong>.\u00a0This was brought under control and on Monday morning the area was being patrolled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The QFES Bushfire Preparedness Level was increased to Level 3 for the Gympie, South Burnett and Cherbourg council areas at 8:00am on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is expected to continue at this level until 6:00pm on Tuesday (November 17).<\/p>\n<p>Level 3 is a predicted Very High to Severe fire danger.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>There is a HIGH fire danger rating for the Wide Bay Burnett on Monday and VERY HIGH for the Darling Downs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_285390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285390\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201116firedanger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285390\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201116firedanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201116firedanger.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201116firedanger-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201116firedanger-722x1024.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: BOM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews were kept busy over the weekend with a number of new fires breaking out, and older incidents flaring up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":285399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3,24],"tags":[90],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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