{"id":375561,"date":"2026-09-06T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=375561"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:34:01","slug":"large-grass-fire-at-coverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2026\/09\/06\/large-grass-fire-at-coverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Grass Fire At Coverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 6, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were battling a large grass fire burning near Coverty Road at Coverty on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the blaze about 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A QFD spokesperson said that at 4:15pm, 13 crews were at the scene with reports that the fire was burning close to caravans.<\/p>\n<p>Both rural and urban crews were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>They had begun backburning in a bid to strengthen containment lines.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said fire crews had reported that the north-eastern and western sides of the fire were contained, and they were working to contain the other edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews were battling a large grass fire burning near Coverty Road at Coverty on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":243674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1924,3,24],"tags":[353,90,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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