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On Friday evening, 30th December 2011, the Brigade received a call from our neighbors at Flinders Peak RFB asking for some assistance with an unusual fire that had been burning all day in billy goat country. The Brigade was soon activated through Firecom and Ripley Valley RFB sent RV41, RV51 and RV52. The job was mainly to help the tired crews on the ground to tidy things up but the fire had consumed nearly 10 hectares of land; some of it densely treed. Arriving crews were amazed at how much terrain had been burnt out given the green grass and humidity. However; there was a lot of dead fuel there and variable strong winds had also made the job more challenging.
Making the area safe around old burning trees was the main challenge.
A patience game sometimes.
Let's hope this is the last fire of the year.
