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Fraser Island bushfire could turn on Kingfisher Bay resort as wind changes, BOM says
There are fresh fears for the Kingfisher Bay Resort and village on Fraser Island’s southern west coast, with a gusting wind change overnight threatening to push the bushfire back towards the township.
Weeks of fire burning on multiple fronts, in difficult terrain have torn through more than 80,000 hectares of the island’s lush green landscape.
Rain in recent days has not extinguished the fires and Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Pieter Claassen said a south-easterly change is expected this morning with winds gusting up to 50 kilometres per hour.
“The change in wind direction has to be accounted for in fighting those fires in terms of setting up containment lines…
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