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Speaker 1: We know that a fireban for the Greater Darwin and

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Speaker 1: Adelaide River areas has been extended for a third day

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Speaker 1: in a row amid challenging fire conditions. Extreme fire danger

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Speaker 1: conditions are forecast, meaning that any fire can be unpredictable

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Speaker 1: and difficult to control. Now, joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: is NTY Fire and Rescue Service Watch Commander Luigi Cookie

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Speaker 1: r Ro. Good morning to you. How are you, Luigi?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, how are you really good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning. Now,

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Speaker 1: first off, can I find out a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about this fire in Howard Springs yesterday that.

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Speaker 2: Kicked off probably after ten o'clock yesterday. It probably I

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Speaker 2: think it might have been a reignition from the day before.

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Speaker 2: We've had a few fires in that area for the

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Speaker 2: past week or so, but the sort of a difficult

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Speaker 2: area to contain and obviously kicked off again yesterday and

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Speaker 2: we spent most of the day there. And yeah, we

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Speaker 2: had heaps of people on the ground with volunteers and

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Speaker 2: permanent fire fires and bush fires and with aerial support.

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Speaker 1: So the busy day, you say, yeah, right, And so

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Speaker 1: is it under control now or what's the situation at present.

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Speaker 2: That's all under control now. We've had a cruise look

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Speaker 2: at it this morning and a few little hotspots, but

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Speaker 2: that's all in the contained area. So we're maintaining a

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Speaker 2: watch on it today all the same, just because of

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Speaker 2: the conditions.

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Speaker 1: And I know that we've obviously got now this third

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Speaker 1: day in a row that we've got the fireban for

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Speaker 1: Greater Darwin and Adelaide River. It sounds as the conditions

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it Is it a situation because we've

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Speaker 1: got quite a bit of wind about too.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is based on. It's the wind conditions.

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Speaker 2: And it's so dry as well. We have some dry

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Speaker 2: condessiones come through the community has dropped off and the

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Speaker 2: fact that the fuel lad's all cured and very very dry,

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Speaker 2: so it won't take much for it to kick off.

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Speaker 1: So what if people need to know during a fireban period.

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Speaker 2: I'll basically just keep an eye on the secure NTE site.

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Speaker 2: We put a lot of the warnings out their advices

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Speaker 2: and so forth, so it just if you've seen your area,

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Speaker 2: just be aware it there's something on, and if there

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Speaker 2: is a fire in the area, just sort of be

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Speaker 2: mindful of. There'd be a lot of smoke, don't drive

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Speaker 2: through any smoke it or keep your head lights on.

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Speaker 2: If that's the case, There'll be a lot of people

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Speaker 2: on the ground, so you've got to watch the traffic.

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Speaker 2: And we just like people they have a bush fire plan,

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Speaker 2: just sort of have a look at it if you

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Speaker 2: got if anything threatening your property, I have an evacuation

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Speaker 2: plan in hand, and make sure that your property is secured.

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Speaker 2: And maintain firebreaks is the message we push out to

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Speaker 2: probably too late in a year and out of sort

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Speaker 2: of go around slashing firebreaks because that can cause by

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Speaker 2: us too. So anything will be helping us, so it

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Speaker 2: will be good.

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, and tell me over the last sort of

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Speaker 1: couple of days, because this is the third day in

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Speaker 1: a row for these challenging conditions. Over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days, you spoke about that fire and Howard Springs.

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Speaker 1: Has there been any others that have been a concern.

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Speaker 2: That was the main one yesterday and we had another

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Speaker 2: one today this morning. But we just some backburn to

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Speaker 2: contain it. But we're just monitoring anything that's active or

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Speaker 2: that was sort of recent. Just if there is any

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Speaker 2: sort of constant hot spots at the moment, we just

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Speaker 2: keep trying to get on top of it early. We

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Speaker 2: have extra cruise on today as well, just just so

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Speaker 2: we can actually get the cruise on the ground early today.

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Speaker 1: Luig, when are we expecting the conditions to ease?

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Speaker 2: It seems to be easing off for the rest of

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Speaker 2: the week. Today it is reduced from yesterday, but it's

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Speaker 2: still a fire band day. But we're hoping that in

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Speaker 2: the next couple of days it'll sort of ease right off.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, we're hoping for Louis of the week.

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Speaker 1: And do you reckon as the weeks go on, I

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Speaker 1: suppose once the weather gets a bit more humid and

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Speaker 1: we get a bit of rain, hopefully that calms things

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Speaker 1: down a bit.

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Speaker 2: It definitely will, but we won't expect that for at

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Speaker 2: least another month or so. Were sort of expecting conditions

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Speaker 2: this time of the year to be warmer and windier,

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Speaker 2: so even through the night, so we do this tends

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Speaker 2: to be the worst time of the year for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, everybody appreciates the work that you guys do,

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Speaker 1: and of course bushfires nt as well, and all those volleys,

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Speaker 1: So hopefully.

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Speaker 2: Thank you diffult big thank you to all the volleys

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Speaker 2: and the bushes are helping us out there. It's very

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Speaker 2: very grateful.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff for Anti Foreign Rescue Service Watch Commander

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Speaker 1: Luigi cookie r Oh, thank you so much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome. Thank you, thank you,