00:00 For a third challenging day, hundreds of firefighters took on dangerous bushfires north-east of
00:07 Perth.
00:10 Planes and helicopters took to the skies after ground crews made solid progress overnight.
00:18 Fire activity has reduced overnight as a result of the favourable weather conditions and that
00:23 has continued on through today.
00:25 Despite temperatures hovering around 40 degrees, major fires near Chittering, Jindjin and Bindoon
00:31 were brought under control.
00:33 Rapid assessment teams were able to confirm two homes lost, along with nine sheds.
00:39 One of the impacted properties, the site of a proposed luxury country club project, which
00:43 is believed to have stalled.
00:45 These scorched paddocks and gnarled fencing shows just how hot and dangerous things got
00:51 just outside the town of Jindjin.
00:54 Firefighters MP Martin Aldridge was out fighting the fire elsewhere before it reached his property.
01:00 With other volunteers, he saved the family home.
01:02 I've been fighting fires for 25 years and you're used to helping others and yesterday
01:08 was the day that many other firefighters came to help me and so it was an amazing job that
01:14 they did.
01:15 23 aircraft in the sky on Sunday, dropping a whopping 2 million litres of water.
01:22 The work that the firefighters are doing is just absolutely phenomenal.
01:25 You just can't thank them enough for looking after the public.
01:29 Thank you for helping us every day on the fires.
01:33 In relation to the weather situation, we're not out of the woods yet.
01:35 The trough is expected to linger for several days with hot, dry and windy conditions before
01:41 it clears the state to the east.
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