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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, NT fire crews responded to a

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Speaker 2: large bushfire near Tenant Creek with the Juno Horse Center

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Speaker 2: and Workers Camp were under threat. They worked tirelessly through

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Speaker 2: the night on Tuesday to bring that fire under control,

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Speaker 2: with members still on the fire ground the next morning.

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Speaker 2: Now joining us on the line is the Tenant Creek

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Speaker 2: Acting station Officer, Matthew Morrison.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Matthew, Good morning Katie. How are you yeah?

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Speaker 2: Really good? Good to have you on the show. Mate.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about what happened on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: Cool. So, a fire starter at around ten thirty pm

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Speaker 1: sort of behind Battery Hill was burning towards the Bartley

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Speaker 1: Workers Camp and the Juno Horse Center YEP, under extreme

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Speaker 1: fire conditions. It was pushing quite fast. But it's important

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Speaker 1: to note that the workers Camp and Juno both had

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Speaker 1: really well managed firebreaks, so firefighting cruise overnight were able

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Speaker 1: to use those brakes to basically prevent the fire from

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Speaker 1: getting closer to the assets, which meant it went really well.

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Speaker 1: There was no evacuations from the camp or from Juno.

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Speaker 1: We did move some stock out of one of the

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Speaker 1: paddocks closer into the Juno Center area just to get

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Speaker 1: them further away from the file. As you said, crews

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Speaker 1: were there all night and pretty much continued all through

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Speaker 1: the next day as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like it. Sounds like it was a bloody,

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Speaker 2: pretty fullorn file. Like how big are we talking here?

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Speaker 1: I think we went back out today to try and

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Speaker 1: map it as best we could, as probably best guests

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Speaker 1: would be around six hundred hectares. A couple fences that

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Speaker 1: we had to sort of get around, so we weren't

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Speaker 1: able to map the entire thing, but yeah, quite large,

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Speaker 1: quite large.

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Speaker 2: And Matthew, tell me how long were the cruise at

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Speaker 2: the scene responding to that blaze and how many are

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Speaker 2: we talking?

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Speaker 1: So from about ten thirty pm overnight cruise were there

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Speaker 1: until we rotated at about eleven am. Was the first

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Speaker 1: rotation two members overnight, and then another two members the

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Speaker 1: next day as well, and then we pretty much had

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Speaker 1: it all wrapped up finished back on station by that

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Speaker 1: four clock four pm, so in total, almost eighteen hours

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Speaker 1: the top of my head.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hey, it's been a busy time for you guys,

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Speaker 2: hasn't it. I Mean you've had some pretty you know,

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Speaker 2: some some tough sort of conditions over recent weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we have extreme fire conditions. It's it's the

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Speaker 1: Buply north and south of within the by danger period

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Speaker 1: still and this these conditions will persist. Everything is pretty

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Speaker 1: much ready to light so anyone that's dropping matches or

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Speaker 1: dry lightning anything like that, it's going to cause quite

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Speaker 1: large fires in the area.

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Speaker 2: So what's the advice to locals in the area this morning,

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Speaker 2: I mean in that in the Barkley region, I guess

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Speaker 2: make sure you're not doing any of the things that

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Speaker 2: you just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that and obviously they're have your firebreaks prepared.

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Speaker 1: If you do own property and you have large fence lines,

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Speaker 1: make sure you have those formula firebreaks either side. That

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Speaker 1: way we can actually protect your property, protect your house.

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Speaker 1: Do that, stay up to date with every all the

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Speaker 1: fire weather conditions, get to know the Australian warning system

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Speaker 1: and that way you'll be on top of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, make good on you guys, you know, for

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Speaker 2: making sure that there was no sort of no property damage,

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Speaker 2: no lives at risk or anything like that. I know

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Speaker 2: it's been a busy time and I know that the

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Speaker 2: people of the Barclay would appreciate the hard work that

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Speaker 2: you guys have been doing. So thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: having a chat with us this morning. Matthew No as well.

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Speaker 1: I'd just like to say obviously also thank you to

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Speaker 1: our volunteer members. Thank you to push Bys MT. They

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Speaker 1: came out and assisted us. Anti police were out there

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Speaker 1: helping as well. Also landowners. We were very fortunate that

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Speaker 1: one of the local station owners was able to fly

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Speaker 1: over us and provide aerial support, letting us know if

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Speaker 1: any containment lines had breached. And that community awareness is

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Speaker 1: really helpful and really good.

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Speaker 2: Oh what a crew. I love it. You know, like

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Speaker 2: in those hard times, that's when the community gets together, right,

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Speaker 2: you rally around and you look out for each other.

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Speaker 1: That's right, definitely, and it shows in these small remote communities.

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Speaker 2: It would, Matthew great to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate your time. Thank you you too,