{"id":59586,"date":"2014-03-08T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=59586"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:18:31","slug":"fire-blackens-airstrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/03\/08\/fire-blackens-airstrip\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Blackens Murgon Airstrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59588\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-59588\" title=\"20140308 Murgon grass fire\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews in action at the end of Macalister Street, Murgon, today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 8, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large grass fire which broke out about 1:15pm in windy conditions on the outskirts of Murgon has blackened most of the Angelfield airstrip but fire crews have protected buildings in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The PCYC&#8217;s remote control car club track is also believed to have escaped damage although the flames came very close.<\/p>\n<p>Ten fire crews &#8211; including urban and rural units &#8211; are currently mopping up grassland in the Macalister and McLucas street area.<\/p>\n<p>An area of about 50ha had been burned out by 2:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED 4:15pm]<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59587\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-59587\" title=\"20140308 Murgon grass fire\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire3-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A smouldering log suddenly bursts into flames but is quickly extinguished by firefighters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59589\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-59589\" title=\"20140308 Murgon grass fire\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140308fire2-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters dampen down the edges of the blackened out area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large grass fire which broke out about 1:15pm in windy conditions on the outskirts of Murgon has blackened most of the Angelfield airstrip but fire crews have protected buildings in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":59588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[90,28,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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