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SRY BRO UPDATE !!!
Vic firefighters prepare for the worst
Posted Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:01pm AEDT
Updated Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:24pm AEDT
Fire crews and residents are preparing for more bad news. (AAP: Joe Castro)
Victorian firefighters are working to prepare for bad weather conditions on Friday as they battle major blazes across the state.
Crews are working on seven fires, including a 300-hectare blaze at Upwey in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne, where the awareness message has been downgraded.
Work is continuing on containment lines at the fire near Won Wron in Gippsland and no properties are under threat.
Efforts are also underway to stop a 20,000-hectare blaze at Wilsons Promontory in the state's east from spreading.
Strike team leader Craig Hepburn is working on the 2,800-hectare blaze near Daylesford, west of Melbourne, which has claimed four sheds and some pine plantations.
He says crews have been preparing for Friday.
"We're just working along the break that was put in yesterday, a few hot spots, a few trees with embers up a bit," he said.
"[We are] just preparing it for the bad weather they're expecting on Friday, with the wind going back to the north, and the temperatures predicted to be 38 at the moment.
"The winds are going to strike up, so this southern side will be the problem area Friday."
Police believe the fire may have resulted from machinery being used during yesterday's total fire ban.
Victoria's Country Fire Authority says it does not believe any homes have been lost in the Daylesford fire.
Police are urging Daylesford residents not to bypass roadblocks and Sergeant Andrew Guiney says police will not help people use backroads to enter unsafe areas.
"You can't ring the police and ask them is it safe for you to go around the roadblock," he said.
"If you chose to go around a roadblock that is your decision and yours alone. It is not recommended, but it is your decision."
The Daylesford fire claimed one man's entire car collection.
Matt Treacey had more than 20 partially restored cars on a property near Musk Vale, south of Daylesford.
He says they are now all destroyed, including a large, gas-powered bus.
"When the gas cylinder exploded of course it blew the roof and folded it back and blew the doors off it, so I would hate to be the firies trying to work on it," he said.
"There's not even one thing we can get from there."