Fire threatens rare animals
Firefighters in the Fitzgerald River National Park on the state’s south will continue back-burning this morning in an effort to contain a blaze before a forecast change in wind direction around midday.
Emergency services say the wind will test containment lines they have set up since the fire was sparked by lightning last Tuesday.
The Fire King helicopter was brought in late yesterday to transport crews to and from the fire front.
Crews have faced major problems with parts of the park being inaccessible and trying to protect two species of rare native animals, the Ground Parrot and Dibblers.
Bunbury fire
Firefighters in Bunbury have worked through the night dampening down a fire that burnt 200 hectares of farmland and destroyed a machinery shed.
The fire started about 4:00pm yesterday in Waterloo, 10 kilometres east of Bunbury and closed the South West Highway for several hours.