NSW: Firefighters take advantage of lull in weather

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2006
NSW: Firefighters take advantage of lull in weather

Firefighters are battling to contain parts of a large bushfire in central NSW .. before
a forecast drop in humidity feeds the flames later today.

Authorities say the Goldmine Road fire .. 45 kilometres south-west of Narrabri .. is
burning on two fronts and has scorched over 12 and a half thousand hectares.

But the Rural Fire Service's REBEL TALBERT says it's not threatening any property.

Milder conditions overnight allowed vital backburning .. and firefighters hope to bring
the blaze under control later in the week.





The Goldmine Road bushfire and six other contained blazes have been burning for weeks
around Coonabarabran and Narrabri .. blackening more than 130 thousand hectares.

Meanwhile in the state's south .. about 100 firefighters and seven aircraft are mopping
up a blaze that's given the township of Tumut near the NSW Snowy Mountains .. a scare.

Almost 12 thousand hectares of bushland and pine plantation have been razed by the
fire burning close to the Goobragandra Valley.

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