As concerns grow about the looming fire season, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has brought forward the Bushfire Danger Period in a number of areas on the Mid North Coast.
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The danger period will now commence on September 1 in the following regions: MidCoast, the Warrumbungles, Gilgandra, Mid-Western Regional Council area, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Bathurst, Oberon, Lithgow and Blue Mountains.
Fire permits will be now be required for any burning from September 1.
These nine regions will be in addition to the other regions that already began the danger period early because of climatic conditions, with the remaining 95 entering the statutory danger period on Sunday, October 1.
Across the Mid North Coast a number of fires are currently causing concern including one at Clybucca in the Kempsey region...Clybucca fire near Stuarts Point continues to spread
And in recent weeks fires have kept authorities on their toes in the Wauchope area...click the photo below to take you to the full story.
It’s an all too familiar story with some communities on the Mid North Coast still reeling from devastating fires in February this year...houses lost as fires rage near Wauchope and Kempsey.
Also in February, during the catastrophic fire conditions, a fire took hold in Nabiac and it was later discoverd an ex-firefighter was responsible...Former firie jailed for lighting fires.
Deputy RFS commissioner Rob Rogers said he was concerned that the coming fire season could be very dangerous with very low rainfall throughout much of the state over winter.
He said in recent weeks that approximately 100 fires in the Kempsey/Port Macquarie areas occurred after landowners’ hazard reduction burns lept controls due to high winds.
“People need to be very cautious at the moment and get their plans into place. Because there’s been little rainfall, fires will burn more quickly,” Commissioner Rogers said.
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