Four emergency warnings issued for fires, across the state

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Four emergency warnings are in place for fires in Queensland with blazes spanning from west of Cairns to the south of Brisbane. Residents in Undullah that the fire down in the Beaudesert area and Mutchilba near Mareeba are being urged to seek shelter immediately as it's becoming too dangerous to leave. Residents in some areas around Wieambilla and Halliford near Dalby should leave immediately and go to the evacuation centre at the Dalby events centre if they do not have a safe place to go.

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00:00 As we stand here today, there's been a number of new ignitions that have arisen from certainly

00:07 the thunderstorms that were experienced overnight last night, particularly in the south-western

00:12 part of the state, but also as late as this afternoon where there's been some fresh outbreaks

00:17 that have occurred again as a result of storm activity in the area.

00:22 These include the Stanthorpe area in and around Texas, Halliford and certainly Mareeba in

00:31 the far north of the state, whilst that of course is not in the area where the storms

00:35 occurred but that is a new outbreak that's occurred just this afternoon.

00:40 And news just in is that there is a fire around Undala, which is around the Bow Desert area

00:48 and that's just happening as we speak right now.

00:51 As you can appreciate with the change that has come through overnight and into today,

00:56 that's certainly had an impact on the Tara fire and the Milmerran fire.

01:00 The Milmerran fire currently is still contained, however the Tara fire is still being worked

01:06 on containment.

01:07 We haven't been able to contain that fire yet at this point in time.

01:11 The change in wind direction from the south-southeast has put pressure on the north and the north-eastern

01:16 sides of those fires and certainly crews have worked tirelessly today with aircraft in the

01:21 air to try and keep that fire within the containment lines that we've identified.

01:28 Moving into tomorrow, the weather that we're looking for is that there will still be extreme

01:33 fire danger in the western parts of the state.

01:37 Whilst the change has come through and currently I'm of the understanding there's some rain

01:41 in the southeast corner as we speak and the conditions will be somewhat cooler on the

01:46 coast, the threat still remains in the western part of the state.

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