Alert Message – Yea-Murrindindi Fire – 11.00am 12/02/2009
Alert Message – Yea-Murrindindi Fire – 11.00am
Alert Message – The communities of Acheron, Cathedral Lane, Thornton – Taggerty Road, Bulls Lane, Connellys Creek, Crystal Creek, Scrubby Creek and Native Dog Creek
12/02/2009
Incident Information
The Yea – Murrindindi fire burning near Alexandra has quietened down overnight and good progress has been made on all sectors. The fire is burning slowly in a northerly direction and is approximately 110,000 hectares in size.
Later this afternoon the wind speed will increase up to 35 kilometres per hour, similar to yesterday.
Residents in the Black Range and Blue Range sections of this fire with properties backing on to the ranges may experience some fire activity on their land. Fire fighting resources have been deployed to these areas to attack fire as it enters grassland.