fires

[Max Hedges]

A fire approximately one and a half hours west of us at a town called Junee has burnt 25000 hectares, 5 homes, 15000 head of stock and other various buildings and fences. The fire my have been started by a cigarette butt thrown out a car window. I went to one fire 60 kms from here which burnt 4000 hectares and 2000 head of stock on New Years Day. Others went to a fire at Boorowa about an hour north of here yesterday, which burnt 500 hectares. Everyone is getting edgey as there has been a lot of wind with really high temperatures, thankfully today so far is cool at 19 celcius still at 9.30 am.

Max