Daytrippers had to sleep in their cars and school children were separated from their parents after a bushfire cut the only access road in and out of a popular Tasmanian tourist peninsula.
The road is the only access in and out of the town of Coles Bay, which is the entrance point for Freycinet National Park and popular sites like Wineglass Bay."They did come and tell us that there was the community centre open but the was no bedding or services there like hot coffee or anything like that," the caller, Crystal, told ABC Breakfast.Coles Bay Road has been reopened for residents to be escorted in and out of the area.
"Initially it was fairly distressing, more for her, but once we explained the situation and put her at ease she was OK," she said. "We had visitors come in who had been caught out travelling so they had been out of the day and couldn't get back to Coles Bay," he said.The Friendly Beaches fire, at Coles Bay Road, has now been downgraded to watch and act, but is still "uncontrolled", the Tasmania Fire Service says.Coles Bay Road has opened once again to traffic in and out of the peninsula, with authorities giving escorts through the fire zone.
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