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February 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The bushfire which broke out near the Meadowbank dam, some 60km north west of Hobart and sending a pall of smoke over Tasmania’s capital has receded in intensity and is not presently threatening lives or property, according to the latest information to hand.
“The burnt area of the fire is roughly 28 hectares… it’s travelling generally in a south easterly direction in the general direction of Gretina and Bushy Park – in that general direction but still some distance away. There was a slight wind change a little while ago which pushed the fire in an easterly direction, much closer to the Lyell highway,” says Mark Dobson, incident controller for the Tasmania Fire Service (TFS).
He says the fire is much less of a threat now the heat of the day has receded, and communities previously considered under threat are no longer so.
“The weather conditions have eased considerably; the fire behaviour is much quieter now than what it was earlier this afternoon. We will have fire crews up there on site all night and they will monitor and patrol the fire throughout the night so if there is any further outbreaks or the fire behavior does increase… we’ll be able to send more crews up there at a minute’s notice. I certainly wouldn’t be expecting the fire to be on the doorsteps of those communities [Gretina, Bushy Park] in the next few hours, absolutely not.”
With the fire’s initial progress and the wind change there was some concern about the Lyell Highway being cut, but Mark Dobson confirms the highway remains open and does not foresee the highway being closed in the immediate future.
“Certainly not in the next 12 hours – the fire activity has died down to the point where it’s reasonably able to be controlled; certianly not under control yet, but the pockets and the fingers of fire travelling towards the highway have been controlled,” he says.
While the fire is not an immediate threat to life or property, Mark Dobson says the forecast weather conditions on Sunday will again stir up the fire front and keep the TFS busy.
“The main fire front… is going to be on the that south easterly edge of the fire, and that’s where we’re expecting to get more activity once the weather conditions worsen for firefighting,” he says.
Dobson restates the announcement of a Total Fire ban for all of Tasmania tomorrow.
“Conditions in the southern region are going to be very similiar to today’s… in the very high to severe range. As a general statement, the worst fire weather we get in Tasmania is in the south eastern corner of the state, including that strip into the Derwent Valley, and that’s certanly what we experienced today… by declaring a Total Fire Ban for the whole state that gives us a greater level of protection and also allows us to monitor fires that do break out.”
Keep in touch with the latest updates via the Tasmania Fire Service incident update page
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