00:00 This is why crews have spent the day on high alert.
00:06 Flare-ups like this one outside Beaufort could easily get away from firefighters.
00:11 Late this afternoon, as the strong winds arrived, so did reinforcements to keep the blaze contained.
00:20 Scott Green and his father Len have been working to protect their home.
00:24 Just set up a heap of hoses, sprinklers, hoping for the best.
00:28 Comes this way, turn them on and run.
00:31 There's not much else I can do.
00:34 They're just sitting late.
00:37 Their good spirits belie the stress that's been building since the fire first started
00:42 six days ago.
00:43 The idea is to put them on the house and right around the shed.
00:48 How are you feeling this time around?
00:50 Very good.
00:51 Len's brother's home went up in flames.
00:58 At nearby Mount Cole last week.
01:00 But he's lost everything.
01:02 He's had Parkins disease.
01:03 He's 82 years of age.
01:06 In the main street of Beaufort, shops were closed and the streets were almost empty,
01:11 as most people heeded warnings to leave.
01:15 Rosemary Torney was among them, packing up her pets and heading to Ballarat.
01:19 Last night there was a tree down and I could be ready to go and just two trees fall down
01:24 and I'm stuck.
01:25 So I decided it's safest things to get out.
01:26 Shay Trengove has been doing what she can to help, including supplying donated food
01:32 to the fireys.
01:33 We're all just trying to band together and help each other out however we can really
01:37 and everyone is just willing to help any way they can.
01:43 Crews have been on high alert, patrolling this massive, more than 20,000 hectare fire
01:49 ground, just keeping an eye out for any re-ignitions, particularly with this wind picking up.
01:55 And that wind will keep emergency services on watch into the night.
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