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Well it looks like our area got through the day without incident.
Our brigade ended up being called to the Sandhills fire East of Bungendore, we arrived to a uncontrolled fire burning along a 3 km front and getting pushed along by big winds.
Our job was to get ahead of the front and protect any properties under threat, I'm happy to say that not one house was lost as far as I know.
At one stage there were around 60 units from NSW and the ACT fighting this fire as well as helicopter support.
The fire is now being controlled but at last check it had taken out around a 1000 hectares. The job now is to contain it before the conditions turn bad again by the weekend.
Through the smoke and flame the sun was a eerie blood red, couple that with flames, smoke and choppers in the air with water buckets it presented a very surreal and dangerous environment.
Yesterday our unit ended up doing around 12 hours on the fireground. with more to come as we start the blacking out operations.
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