{"id":289172,"date":"2020-12-07T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=289172"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:35:19","slug":"fire-bans-extended-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/12\/07\/fire-bans-extended-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Bans Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 7, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A local fire ban in place in the South Burnett, Cherbourg, Gympie and North Burnett council areas has been extended.<\/p>\n<p>A QFES spokesperson said on Monday that due to the current conditions, the fire ban in the North Coast region has been extended until 11:55pm on Friday (December 11).<\/p>\n<p>The North Coast region also includes Bundaberg, Fraser Coast, Sunshine Coast and Noosa council areas.<\/p>\n<p>Fire bans are also in place in adjacent council areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Somerset has been extended until 11:59pm on December 11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Toowoomba and Western Downs until 11:55pm on December 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The latest information about fire bans and exemptions that can apply can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RFS website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>South Burnett firefighters were called to a blaze burning near Wengenville-Glencliffe Road at Wengenville on Sunday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The alert went out just before 1:15pm.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0 2:00pm, there were seven fire crews at the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Earthmoving equipment and waterbombing supported rural and urban crews on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, the area was being patrolled by fire crews.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201207firerisk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-289189\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201207firerisk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201207firerisk.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201207firerisk-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201207firerisk-722x1024.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local fire ban in place in the South Burnett, Cherbourg, Gympie and North Burnett council areas has been extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":285690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[90],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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