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Speaker 1: Well, as you know, there is a fireban in place

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Speaker 1: for today and we are expecting some pretty difficult conditions.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd have to say for our firefighters. Joining

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Speaker 1: us in the studio right now is well the acting

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Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Fire Officer Joshua Fisher. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, josh.

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Speaker 1: I know that yesterday those conditions started to worse than

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Speaker 1: I guess, but today we're anticipating that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be fairly bad. Firstly, how many fires are still going

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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the Northern Centry Fine Rescue Service, we've got

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Speaker 2: incidents currently occurring in the Castherne region, so in Cossack

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Speaker 2: and Lansdown, so we've got cruise responding from Catherine, as

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Speaker 2: well as sending additional support crews from Darwin and Jabru

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Speaker 2: to assist our members there in Catherine. We've also got

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Speaker 2: a number of fires that have carried over from yesterday,

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Speaker 2: so one at Virginia that was a watchnacked level fire

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Speaker 2: for a number of hours in the Burden's Creek Leavy

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Speaker 2: Road area, as well as some advice messages in advice

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Speaker 2: level fires in Sokoli and the Darwin Airport. So a

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Speaker 2: number of active fire grands at our cruise are monitoring

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Speaker 2: again today.

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Speaker 1: Now at this stage are all of those fairly well

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Speaker 1: under control, no threat to properties.

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Speaker 2: The ones in Darwin at this time are under control. However,

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Speaker 2: the two that are in Catherine are not yet under control.

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Speaker 2: There's no direct threat to any properties at this time. However,

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Speaker 2: given the current forecast fired anger, that situation may change quickly.

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Speaker 1: So what's the advice for locals in Catherine. I know

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Speaker 1: that we've got a lot of listeners in Catherine this morning.

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Speaker 1: What's the advice for them?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, as we know, we've got severe fired angel

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Speaker 2: forecasts for the Darwin Adelaide River fire with a forecast

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Speaker 2: area and the Northern fire Protection Zone as well as

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Speaker 2: elevated fire risk north of Elliott. So with those conditions,

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Speaker 2: it's bringing some gusty southeasterly winds. So for our members

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Speaker 2: that are in Catherine, we are some them to monitor

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Speaker 2: the conditions, access information. They can do that via OL

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Speaker 2: social media pages or through secure and tea, and obviously

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Speaker 2: monitor their local situation and heat any advice that's given

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Speaker 2: from fire authorities.

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Speaker 1: Josh, is this really the worst we've had it so

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Speaker 1: far this year? When we talk about these fire conditions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is certainly the most elevated sort of fire

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Speaker 2: risk that we've had this year to date. This is

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Speaker 2: going to be a multi day event. We're already up

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Speaker 2: to the second day of continuous fire bends and we're

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Speaker 2: likely to see fire bends extended potentially through to Friday.

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Speaker 2: So we've got the severe fired anger obviously today for

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Speaker 2: Darwen Adelaide River fire with a forecast area and the

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Speaker 2: Northern Fire Protection Zone, but there may be small isolated

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Speaker 2: areas that may reach extreme fired anger, such as Bachelor

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Speaker 2: or Adelaide River so south of Darwin as those gusty

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Speaker 2: southeasterly winds move through. So we're looking at a grass

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Speaker 2: fired angel index of ninety one for Bachelor's that's the

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Speaker 2: highest this year to date that we're likely to experience

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Speaker 2: seventy three here in Darwin. So under these conditions, you know, fires,

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Speaker 2: if they do happen to starting, going to move very

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Speaker 2: very quickly and people won't have much time if a

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Speaker 2: fire does happen to start nearby their property. So it's

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Speaker 2: really a great reminder for people to activate their bushfires

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Speaker 2: vival plan in the event of a fire occurring.

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Speaker 1: And no doubt you've got all hands on deck and

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Speaker 1: you'll be trying to juggle all of those different situations

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Speaker 1: and scenarios.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. We've got enhanced crew in on today in

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Speaker 2: our Greater Daarwen area. As I mentioned, we're sending additional

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Speaker 2: resources from JABRU and some amazing volunteers from a Greater

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Speaker 2: Dawen area down to Catherine to lend a hand. We're

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Speaker 2: also very thankful of Bushfires into that are currently assisting

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Speaker 2: our Catherine members there in Catherine. So it really is

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Speaker 2: a multi agency and all hands on deck approach during

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Speaker 2: these fire weather conditions. Our volunteers have been busy over

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Speaker 2: the last forty eight hours and right through the fire

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Speaker 2: season supporting our career members on a number of fires.

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Speaker 1: Josh, is there anything else we should be aware of

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Speaker 1: this morning or anything else we should be making our

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Speaker 1: listeners aware of this morning? Look?

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Speaker 2: I think again, it's just a reminder that if a

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Speaker 2: fire does start, if they happen to see it, call

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Speaker 2: Triple zero immediately. The sooner that we can get to

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Speaker 2: these fires, the lesser the impact may be. If the

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Speaker 2: fight dous start, activate your bush fire survival plan and

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Speaker 2: work to that plan. Be informed by it, and that

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Speaker 2: will guide you to the actions that you'll take to

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Speaker 2: either stay and defend or to leave early from your property.

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Speaker 1: Well, the acting Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Josh Fisher, We're

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Speaker 1: going to keep a very close eye on things over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days. We may even be back

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Speaker 1: in contact with you tomorrow. All the best to you

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Speaker 1: and all of your firefighters and definitely all of those

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Speaker 1: volunteers as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.