The weekend’s rain has done little to dampen the high fire danger across the region as Tamworth, Gunnedah and the Liverpool Plains prepare to enter the Bushfire Danger Period on Saturday.
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For the Tamworth and Gunnedah regions the danger period has been brought forward a month, just one month after ten other regions across the state including throughout the New England and Northern Tablelands started this month.
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Tamworth RFS Superintendent Allyn Purkiss said the danger period requires all fires greater than one metre by one metre require a permit from their local brigade or fire control office.
“The fuel loads look pretty ordinary on the plains, but the fuel loads that are there are super primed and ready to go,” he said.
“It has been so dry that any spark or fire will catch very easily and continue to burn because of the lack of moisture – the forests in our region are well primed to go.”
As of Saturday the new 40 km/h rule also comes into force where all vehicles must travel at that speed near any vehicle with emergency lights on.
