Bosbrand na blikseminslag onder controle
Lightning strike bushfires under control
Fire crews have controlled two bushfires caused by lightning in north-west Victoria and just across the border in South Australia. A fire burnt 11 hectares in the Murray Sunset National Park, 11 kilometres north-west of Walpeup, and the other burnt out 1,000 hectares in the adjoining Peebinga Conservation area in South Australia.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment's Caroline Douglass says the band of storms passed through in the early evening and spotter planes are now in the air in the Mallee and around the Grampians to see if there are other fires. It was actually two sort of groups of lightning strikes, there was one in the Mallee in the far north-west corner around Mildura and the Murray Sunset Park and another group around Portland stretching up to the Grampians, she said.
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Fire crews have controlled two bushfires caused by lightning in north-west Victoria and just across the border in South Australia. A fire burnt 11 hectares in the Murray Sunset National Park, 11 kilometres north-west of Walpeup, and the other burnt out 1,000 hectares in the adjoining Peebinga Conservation area in South Australia.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment's Caroline Douglass says the band of storms passed through in the early evening and spotter planes are now in the air in the Mallee and around the Grampians to see if there are other fires. It was actually two sort of groups of lightning strikes, there was one in the Mallee in the far north-west corner around Mildura and the Murray Sunset Park and another group around Portland stretching up to the Grampians, she said.
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