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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now from Bushfires Int.

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Speaker 1: It is Tony Fuller. Good morning, Tony, Good morning, Tony.

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Speaker 1: What's the latest for Tenant Creek in the Barkley region.

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Speaker 2: We had some pretty good success last night with one

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Speaker 2: of the containment lines along the gos River, But this

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Speaker 2: morning we've had some a bit of a breakout and

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Speaker 2: one of the containment lines that the crews are working with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, now, yeah, right, So whereabouts is that breakout line?

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Speaker 1: And how close to town?

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Speaker 2: It's still about thirty or forty k's away from town,

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Speaker 2: so the crews are getting to try and fix that one.

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Speaker 1: Now, Tony, what is the feeling amongst Bushfires INT All

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Speaker 1: the authorities? Of course, as you know, as this fire

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Speaker 1: continues to rage on and thirty to forty kilometers away

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Speaker 1: from Tenants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's obviously putting a lot of pressure on us.

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Speaker 2: We've got another asset that's just flying in from this

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Speaker 2: how well arrive today and that's a plane that will

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Speaker 2: be able to do it give us real basically real

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Speaker 2: time mapping of where the fire is. It's a specialist plane.

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Speaker 2: I think it's called a citation. That's just a right

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Speaker 2: So hopefully that'll get airborn soon and we'll give us

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Speaker 2: a little bit more situational awareness of where hotspots are

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Speaker 2: and where we should be concentrating our efforts.

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Speaker 1: Tony, and you guys confident that you've you know that

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Speaker 1: you have got all the resources that you need. Should

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Speaker 1: that fire move closer to.

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Speaker 2: Town, Yeah, definitely around town. There's been a lot of

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Speaker 2: preparation around town itself and it's pretty defendable, so we're

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Speaker 2: not expecting a Hawaii type of event. If that's what

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Speaker 2: people are worried about. It's just that we'll have to

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Speaker 2: put resources on the eastern side of the town and

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Speaker 2: just protect it from from behind. But that's with Norn

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Speaker 2: Territory Fire Service as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I know, well the emergency declaration obviously

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Speaker 1: called Lake yesterday as well. What does that mean for

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Speaker 1: you guys in terms of managing things.

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Speaker 2: Look, it just gives the police and us more powers

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Speaker 2: if we do need to evacuate. So that's more for

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Speaker 2: the police side of the house. That doesn't really affect

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Speaker 2: us too much. We just continue on with what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Tony, talk us through the resourcing that is required right

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Speaker 1: now in terms of managing these things.

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Speaker 2: Look at the moment, we've got three water bombers, two

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Speaker 2: helicopters in the air, another fixed wing aircraft is sur

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Speaker 2: violence and then there's the plane that's just arrived with

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Speaker 2: additional support from New South Wales. On the ground, there's

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Speaker 2: anywhere between thirty and thirty five I think staff that

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Speaker 2: are fighting the fire. But the stations around there have

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Speaker 2: all been really doing heap of work and we wouldn't

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Speaker 2: been able to achieve what we've been able to achieve

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Speaker 2: without their efforts. Certainly put a lot of containment lines in,

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Speaker 2: a lot of graders have been active, and now we've

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Speaker 2: got the ADF supporting this as well. So yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of things going on on

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Speaker 2: the ground.

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Speaker 1: And there was a public meeting held last night. You know,

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Speaker 1: it seems as though the community is incredibly grateful for

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Speaker 1: all of that work that is happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I was sort in there, but feedback was

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Speaker 2: good and that the community there's been outstanding and supporting

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Speaker 2: our stuff. But from what I've heard from my stuff down.

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Speaker 1: There, Yeah, how are your staff going down there? And

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Speaker 1: how are those volleys going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good, pretty resilient lot. We've been rotating them

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Speaker 2: through and we've actually sent a couple more of our

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Speaker 2: staff down today to assist our incident controller and ours

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Speaker 2: officer there. They've been working pretty hard for the last

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Speaker 2: four or five days, so we just sent some additional

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Speaker 2: resources down so they can get a day or two off,

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Speaker 2: give them some respite.

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Speaker 1: Tony, what's the weather forecast for this afternoon? I know

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Speaker 1: you'd said to me earlier in the weeks that it

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Speaker 1: was a worry that, you know, that the weather conditions

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Speaker 1: were going to sort of be worse later in the week.

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Speaker 1: How's it looking.

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Speaker 2: Look a little bit better for us at the moment,

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Speaker 2: starting to drop off. The winds not as high as

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Speaker 2: it was predicted, but it is ineasily at the moment,

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Speaker 2: which is pushing prior towards Tenant Creek. And you know

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Speaker 2: that's something we're monitoring very closely with the Bureau of

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Speaker 2: Staff that are also embedded with us out here at.

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Speaker 1: Akasha Tiny anything else we should be aware of this

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Speaker 1: morning before we let you go. I know it's been,

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Speaker 1: you know, like it's incredibly busy times for you guys,

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Speaker 1: for all of our authorities, for all of the volunteers.

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Speaker 1: It is tough going right now. But anything else we

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Speaker 1: should be aware of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we've got a firebanding place obviously in Darn.

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Speaker 2: We've got a fire that we're responding to and the

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Speaker 2: Darn ruler at the moment. We've also got a fairly

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Speaker 2: large fire out at Gregory National Park that's coming from

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Speaker 2: around CALCARENGI pushing towards Gregory National Park, as I said,

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Speaker 2: and understand that park's over there in the process of

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Speaker 2: removing campus from the path of that fire. So that's

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Speaker 2: another one that we're watching as well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey, you know we speak about the fireban.

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Speaker 2: I know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, even with your resources trying to juggle everything,

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Speaker 1: we're expecting it to be a busy few months. How

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Speaker 1: I know I said this to you yesterday, But how

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Speaker 1: do you sort of manage this and continue to over

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Speaker 1: a long period.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We'll reach out to other agencies as we need them.

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Speaker 2: I know that there's been a call out across some

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Speaker 2: of the government departments to get some additional supporting for us,

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Speaker 2: So we'll use them as much as possible and don't

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Speaker 2: keep going what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Well, Tony Faller, we always appreciate your time. I know

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Speaker 1: it is bloody busy for all of you, so we

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time and we'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanksy, thank you,