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Speaker 1: Well, Territorian's turned out in force to celebrate Territory Day overnight,

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Speaker 1: thousands descending on Mindle for the public fireworks display, and

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Speaker 1: many of you enjoying your own personal fireworks to celebrate

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Speaker 1: all that is wonderful about the Northern Territory. Now joining

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Speaker 1: us on the show to let us know how things

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Speaker 1: went overnight. Chief Fire Officer for the Northern Territory Fire

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Speaker 1: East Stephen Sewel, good morning to you listeners, and of

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Speaker 1: course Bushfires into Incident Controller Mark Williams, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you both on the show. Now, tell

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Speaker 1: me if either of you slept. First off, little bit

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Speaker 1: little bit of sleep, because it's a I would imagine

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Speaker 1: it is probably the busiest night of the year for

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Speaker 1: our firefighters rural and in the city. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: might go to you first. Do we know how many

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Speaker 1: fires we had overnight?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so just during the period that we recorded the

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Speaker 2: actual stats, one hundred and eighty fires, so like it

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Speaker 2: was was quite significant. So yeah, one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: there were grass fires, so sixteen rubbish bin fires. We

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Speaker 2: had structure fires as well, so ended up being three

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Speaker 2: for the period, so which is quite significant. Obviously there'll

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Speaker 2: be you know, some people displaced because of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, talk me through. I mean one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: grass fires, sixteen rubbish bin fires. Obviously the concerning ones

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Speaker 1: those three structure fires, where were they so out.

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Speaker 2: In Humpty Doo we had the loss of someone's dwelling.

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Speaker 2: So Yarawanga was the next one, which was industrial estate premises.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not one hundred percent sure on the third location,

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Speaker 2: but that was the one that was a garage fire.

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Speaker 2: So the storage of fireworks after the events, so it

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Speaker 1: Do we know how extensive the damage was with those

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Speaker 1: structure fires.

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Speaker 2: No, they're currently under investigation, so like, I won't go

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Speaker 2: allow the investigation to take place. But Johnny and like,

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Speaker 2: it's obviously damaging to people's lives and livelihood.

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Speaker 1: So the one added Humpty dew does that fall under

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Speaker 2: Dealing with us, So that was in the era, so

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Speaker 1: Area and so do we know if like, do we

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Speaker 1: know if it was Territory Day related because a couple

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Speaker 1: of those were sort of early in the afternoon, wasn't that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Correct? I think that one from memory was like around

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Speaker 2: the two o'clock mark. So yeah, so people are in

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Speaker 2: position of fireworks. But like I said before, we're investigating

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Speaker 2: and we'll get a cause.

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Speaker 1: So now in terms of just with one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty grass fires, and this probably falls across both of you,

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Speaker 1: how significant with some of those grass fires? Are we

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Speaker 1: talking sort of small areas? Are we talking quite large

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them were quite large, like for us,

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Speaker 2: So down at Radford Road there was one of the

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Speaker 2: ones that I was at until just after three o'clock

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Speaker 1: So that was Bradford Road, did you show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so where all that new building and development is

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Speaker 1: So and so how many I mean, how many fieries

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so like we're looking at probably you know, twelve

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. But yeah, like literally like you're putting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, So, but but that's that's fireworks, I suppose

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Speaker 1: Stupidity I think we call it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably a good word for it. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: You say, oh my goodness, what happened then that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they got stopped and obviously we called the police

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Speaker 1: bit more about that one. In terms of the rural area,

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Speaker 3: It was a very good night actually, and certainly a

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Speaker 3: have twenty five fires across the territory that we responded to.

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Speaker 3: A lot of those were actually responded to and came

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Speaker 1: So in that one where the courtyard was alike, the

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Speaker 3: Outs at that particular time. No, they didn't actually realize

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Speaker 3: So again lucky saves around in those general locations. But

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Speaker 3: So a total of twenty five, which is drastically reduced

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Speaker 3: we've had that still a bit of a green tea

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Speaker 1: So a drastic reduction for bush fires in t out

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Speaker 1: I say only it's still a big number of fires

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Speaker 3: Last year itself was even less than the year prior,

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Speaker 3: and hopefully that's a sign for future. So again, congratulations

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Speaker 3: But I think a lot of it also comes down

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Speaker 3: So we had a fortunate evening. Certainly some tire cruise

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Speaker 3: that we've got a wrap on everything and again working

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem to have been such a good

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Speaker 1: call ordinated response from fireies like you know, out in

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Speaker 1: the rural area and indeed in town, Stephen, in terms

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Speaker 1: of our numbers in the city, one hundred and eighty fives.

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Speaker 1: How does that compare to previous.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's slightly slightly up for the same periods. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: like our just fire Call operators they took five hundred

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Speaker 2: do such a wonderful job in there, like as all

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Speaker 2: of our crews and our volunteers like really stood up

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Speaker 2: last night as well. So yeah, we had enhanced resources

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Speaker 2: on last night and they're all there again today. So today,

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Speaker 2: like you said before, is you know our peak period

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Speaker 2: You know, people are more aware when the event's actually

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Speaker 1: Ye, So do you anticipate for both of you, do

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Speaker 1: you anticipate the next twenty four hours is actually going

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Speaker 1: to be quite busy? I mean, you know, we know

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Speaker 1: that there's always some people who hang on to fireworks

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Speaker 3: Certainly? I guess a peak period for us at the moment.

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Speaker 3: We've still got a lot of school holidays going on,

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Speaker 3: people still with those remnant fireworks and the likes of that,

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Speaker 3: So it will certainly be on heightened awareness. We've got

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Speaker 3: Cruise rostered through. Our volunteers are certainly aware of the

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Speaker 3: issues and the local hotspots that we've got within their

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Speaker 3: brigade areas. So certainly, and again that observation flight later

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Speaker 3: today will indicate any existing fires that are already occurring

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Speaker 3: that may not have been reported last night. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: we'll wrap them up as quick as we possibly can.

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Speaker 1: Stephen, same situation for you, pretty much like the inversion

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Speaker 1: will happen, you know, round about nine o'clock and then

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Speaker 1: we'll see like winds drop off, not until nineteen hundred tonight.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so it's all intelligence lead sort of thing,

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Speaker 2: and we've got people ready to respond. So we've had

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Speaker 2: our r pass crews have been up this morning, so

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Speaker 2: just trying to identify any hot spots that left over

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Speaker 2: straight away and onto it before it becomes a problem.

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Speaker 1: And is there are there any areas of concern this morning?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so back out in those rural areas and those

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that, they're still areas of concern. So

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Speaker 2: if anyone out there sees any smoke or sees any fire,

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Speaker 2: make sure they're ring triple zero and one three one

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Speaker 2: triple four and we'll respond appropriately.

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Speaker 1: Any idea with the Casarina Coastal Reserve. What kind of

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Speaker 1: like area we're talking that was damaged over ice.

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Speaker 2: I don't know the actual size or what have you,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, quite significant, you know, so you know, and

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Speaker 1: So absolutely it's always a worry like the large majority

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Speaker 1: have some that really do behave in a way that is,

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Speaker 1: you know, is stupid, I guess is the most straightforward

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Speaker 1: say the large majority have behaved fairly well overnight. You know,

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Speaker 1: what would your synopsis be from overnight overall?

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Speaker 2: I think it was thumbs up, you know, like it

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Speaker 2: was it was definitely you know, the benefit of territorians

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Speaker 2: was one hundred percent, you know, so you'll always get

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Speaker 2: your ones and twos and that. But like all the

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Speaker 2: Like we did a lot of prevention, a lot of preparation,

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Speaker 2: you know, and that's not just by us, that's also

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Speaker 2: So that really pays dividends and makes both of our

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Speaker 2: their own mitigation, it just gives firefighters a defendable spot

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Speaker 2: with the best means possible.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, Thank you both very much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. Thank you to all of the Fieries,

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Speaker 1: make sure that you know that those fires were put out.

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Speaker 1: I think with that, you know, quite honestly, without you

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Speaker 1: to forty eight hours is a little bit quieter for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not just Darwin as well, so right

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, one hundred and just actually on that note,

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Speaker 1: how did Catherine go overnight? Were they are right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a couple of jobs down there. We

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Speaker 3: But yeah, there was a number of instances, but it

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Speaker 3: as Stephen mentioned, I think it is that one on

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Speaker 3: two percent ruined it for or potentially ruin it for

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Speaker 3: everybody else. So but congratulations to everybody else in their

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Speaker 1: Oh well, good stuff. Thank you both so very much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning, Chief Fire Officer steven Sall

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Speaker 1: and Bushfires Into Incident Controller Mark Williams. Thank you both

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Speaker 1: for your time.

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Speaker 3: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,