Farmers face more frequent freak fires

By Vivien Thomson
Updated October 28 2017 - 4:27pm, first published 4:23pm
Fire season: farmers face more frequent freak fires
Fire season: farmers face more frequent freak fires

In my 30 years of firefighting, the scene unfolding in January 2003 was like nothing I had witnessed. I watched the fire round the side of a steep hill at speed and, when it reached the flat, jump more than 50 metres from tree top to tree top with no surface fire below and virtually no winds.

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