Bushfires continue to burn across southern Queensland with 32 homes and more than a dozen other structures destroyed with multiple new fires ignited after storm activity overnight.
Bushfires continue to burn across southern Queensland with 32 homes and more than a dozen other structures destroyed, while hundreds of evacuees nervously wait to be told when they can return to their properties.More than 250 evacuees from the Tara region are waking up after another night away from home
A watch and act warning is current for Kogan, north-west of Toowoomba, where residents are being told to prepare to leave, and Tara, where it's still not safe for people to return.In the state's north-west, a watch and act warning has been issued for the Lake Moondarra Road near Mount Isa, with people told not to return to the area.
"While conditions will be somewhat cooler on the coast, the threat still remains in the west," he said." is not favourable for the conditions we were looking for to assist us to contain the Tara fire and the fire up into the Carnarvon area."Western Downs Regional Council Mayor Paul McVeigh said more than 250 people who had left the Tara fire zone were bunkered down at evacuation centres in Dalby and Chinchilla.
She said they had gone to sleep that night thinking the former school bus the couple are living in while building their home would be safe.
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