Country Fire Authority volunteer fire-fighters take a break while fighting fires which flared in a scenic area along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road on Christmas Day, destroying dozens of houses.
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On Friday, some 1,600 residents and tourists were evacuated from Lorne amid fears that a wind change would push the fire towards the town, but were allowed to return on Saturday.
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“(It was) a odd experience looking back across the bay at all of that column of smoke whilst we were trying to enjoy our Christmas”, he said.
“You have got to stand proud to say that people are with us”, says fire chief Craig Lapsley. “Everything’s available to burn”.
“This brigade, this community, actually had a community plan that had planned for many years about a fire coming into Wye River”. Emergency officials said teams would go in to assess damage.
The Great Ocean Road is blackened on both sides, right down to the ocean, between Kennett River and Wye River.
The area is one of Australia’s leading tourist areas, famed for its picturesque scenery and the weird rock formations visible just offshore in the blustery Southern Ocean.
The fires started with a lightning strike on December 19 and have already burned more than 2,000 hectares (20 square kms/4,940 acres).
The CFA told residents and tourists in Wye River and Separation Creek to seek shelter and protect themselves if they had failed to follow the evacuation warning by 1pm.
The road and nearby Great Otway National Park have been closed to the public due to the fires.
Despite the intensity of the fires, as of Saturday no casualties had been reported.
All night red, hot flames burst through the Christmas sky, claiming more than 50 homes in popular surf holiday towns. Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said grants would be available to help those who had lost their homes.
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It is the latest of a series of bushfires to hit the state this year.
