Authorities urge residents of Melbourne's suburban fringe to prepare for an increased risk of fires as hot temperatures dry out grass plains.
abc.net.au/news/melbournes-suburban-fringe-fire-preparedness-danger/101995696Assessing the damage near her property just outside Melbourne's fringe, Louise Whitefield remembers the smell of the fire.A large grassfire ran through her Gisborne block in 2014, destroying everything but her family's home.
Ms Whitefield's home is just minutes from Melbourne's ever-expanding urban fringe, where suburbs meet grasslands. It was the same day the state enacted its first total fire ban since early 2020 — and the day fire neared Ms Whitefield's home."In many parts of these communities and across Victoria, there's very, very thick, dry grass now that we've had the hot, dry winds through the grasslands," the CFA's Nicky Haslinghouse says.
On Sunday, more than 20 fire trucks responded to a grassfire in Grangefields, east of Melton. At about the same time, crews brought a grassfire under control in nearby Strathtulloh. The recent focus has been Mickleham, about 40 kilometres north of Melbourne's CBD in the Hume council area."A lot of our residents that are moving out here in Mickleham don't actually realise that they're on that urban interface," Hume emergency management officer Tina Georgiev says.
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