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Prevelly fire update1600 hours

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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
A bushfire that has been burning since last Saturday south-east of Prevelly has been contained.

Fire crews from the Department of Environment and Conservation are continuing to mop up around the perimeter and to consolidate boundaries.

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Prevelly: 1000 hours

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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Fire crews from the Department of Environment and Conservation today will further strengthen the southern boundary of a bushfire that has burned around 350 hectares in the Blackboy Hollow area south-east of Prevelly near Margaret River.
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Prevelly 1200 hours

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Monday, 26 October 2009
Fire crews from the Department of Environment and Conservation and local volunteer bushfire brigades are continuing to work on the southern boundary of a bushfire that so far has burned through 350 hectares in the Blackboy Hollow area south east of Prevelly near Margaret River.
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Kimberley 1700 hours

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Friday, 23 October 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) fire crews are continuing in the face of extreme weather conditions to work on a major bush fire in the Kimberley.
DEC Incident Controller Alan Byrne said DEC crews from the Kimberley and eight staff from the State's South-West and Mid West regions, were working on fires in Purnululu National Park.
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Kimberley 1600 hours

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Thursday, 22 October 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) fire crews are continuing in the face of extreme weather conditions to work on two major bush fires in the Kimberley.

DEC Planning Officer Ben Tannock said crews in the Kimberley, including eight staff from the State's south-west, were working on fires on the Mitchell River plateau and in Purnululu National Park.

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DEC South-West staff assist with northern fires

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Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) fire crews are working on three major bush fires in the Kimberley.
DEC State Duty Officer Terry Maher said crews in the Kimberley were working on fires on the Mitchell River and in Purnululu National Park. A fire that burnt 300,000ha in Windjana Gorge National Park has been contained but is still being monitored and patrolled.
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South-West: 1600 hours

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Friday, 15 May 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.

The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) advises smoke from its prescribed burns operations in the south-west over the last two days may continue to impact on several communities and main roads overnight and Saturday morning.

Main areas expected to be affected in the south-west are between Nannup and Augusta north to Yallingup and to the east between Kirup and Manjimup. Several key roads are expected to be affected by a combination of smoke and fog including Stewart Road, Sues Road, Vasse Highway, Brockman Highway, Mowen Road, South western Highway, Deeside Coast Road and Muir Highway.

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Smoke alert for south-west 1645 hours

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Thursday, 14 May 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) advises smoke from its prescribed burns operations in the south-west over the last two days may continue to impact on several communities and main roads overnight and tomorrow morning.

Main areas expected to be affected in the south-west are between Augusta and Yallingup and east between Kirup and Manjimup. Several key roads are expected to be affected by a combination of smoke and fog including Stewart Road, Sues Road, Vasse Highway, Brockman Highway, Mowen Road, South Western Highway, Deeside Coast Road and Muir Highway.

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Smoke alert for Warren region 1100 hours

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Thursday, 14 May 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) advises smoke from one of its prescribed burns conducted today south-east of Manjimup may impact on several communities and main roads throughout the Warren region today.

Several key roads are expected to be affected by the mixture of smoke and heavy fog including Deeside Coast Road, Muir Highway and a section of the Southwest Highway near Quinninup.

 

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Smoke alert for Margaret River and Busselton 1630 hours

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Thursday, 16 April 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.

The Department of Environment and Conservation advises there may be some haze in the Margaret River and Busselton areas this evening as a result of prescribed burns being conducted between Pemberton and Nannup.

State duty officer Murray Carter said a community protection burn of 550ha 25km south west of Manjimup had been carried out today and easterly winds were expected to push the smoke between Margaret River and Busselton.

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Avon Valley - 1230 hours

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Sunday, 15 March 2009
Note: this is an archived article, and kept for historical purposes.
Fire crews worked through the night using hand tools to construct containment lines around a fire that started at 4pm in steep inaccessible country in Avon Valley National Park yesterday.

Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) Perth Hills duty officer Kevin Pollock said a Sikorski helicopter, two helitacs and two fixed-wing water bombers extinguished the running fire before dark yesterday.

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