First bad fire day a warning we all have a vital role to play

Updated October 6 2015 - 10:47pm, first published 3:19pm

Tuesday’s conditions would have been considered bad fire weather in the middle of summer. But to have 30 degree plus temperatures across the state and winds gusting from the north must have seemed like an unwelcome awakening for the multitudes of crews called out so early in the season. If there ever was a clear alarm to the flammability of the country we live in and increasing risk posed by a changing climate, it was Tuesday’s fire map; awash with incidents and control activity on only the fifth day of October. A day within only a fortnight of the Spring equinox.

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