Emergency crews are working to protect the Outback Australian town of Tennant Creek with containment lines as a huge wildfire threatens the remote community of 3,000.
Wildfires are common across Australia’s northern tropical region during the current dry season that will end when the monsoons arrive during the Southern Hemisphere summer.
But teams were also using water bombers and strategic backburning against the fire near Tennant Creek which began last week. Unusually abundant rain in recent years meant there was more fuel in the landscape than usual, he said.
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