Tas: Bicheno remains on high alert

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2006
Tas: Bicheno remains on high alert

Tasmanian firefighters are battling a 25 thousand hectare fire .. threatening to jump
control lines and sweep through a rugged national park to the coastal town of Bicheno.

Bicheno residents are on high alert because the fire .. which ravaged Scamander and
St Mary's last week .. is burning along the northern edge of the Elephant Pass access
road.

A fire official says if the blaze crosses the road into the Douglas Apsley National
Park .. there'll be little to stop it sweeping 25 kilometres south to Bicheno.

DANNY REID from the Tasmanian Fire Service's fire management unit says the park's is
rugged and inaccessible .. and once it gets in there .. there's not much people can do.

Up to 160 firefighters are trying to control the blaze which is spreading further west.

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