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Update as of Tuesday 21st

Author:
Ashley

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Date Posted: 05:27:16 01/21/03 Tue

Fire alert lifted in ACT Courtesy : ABC News OZ

The high fire alert for Canberra's northern suburbs has been lifted.
The Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and the chief fire control Officer Peter Lucas-Smith have completed an aerial assessment of the danger to the areas of Belconnen, Gunghalin and Hall. Emergency Services bureau chief Mike Castle says the danger has eased with an easterly wind change. "That change has come through and they've actually kept the fire within the containment lines," he said. "They haven't contained it to our north-west both those fires as I understand it, so Peter believes that the wind shift which will come through lessens that immediate bushfire threat, so that lifts that threat of bushfire in the suburban Canberra area." But the good news on the fire front has been tempered with the latest figures on property losses from the federal police. An assessment of rural areas has added another 32 houses to the tally of destruction taking the number of houses damaged by Saturday's firestorm to 451. The weather is forecast to get worse again on the weekend and the total
fire ban in the ACT has been extended to Monday.

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Thanks my friend for that update ..I been watching it on TV and I hope they get it put out soon .. (NT)	Rick	10:14:58 01/21/03 Tue