00:00We're out with one of the fire crews near the town of Xi'an on the west coast of Tasmania.
00:07This is one of the areas that was burnt on Thursday.
00:09It was threatening the town of Xi'an kind of later into the afternoon and early evening.
00:14There was an evacuation alert there.
00:16And now the crews are coming back in.
00:17There was quite a bit of rain this morning, but they're wanting to get in here and look
00:21for hot spots before the wind picks up back again and could potentially restart fires
00:26from some of those hot spots.
00:28And so this was on, this was a blaze on a couple of days ago?
00:31Yep.
00:32Yep.
00:33So, I think that was...
00:34Thursday.
00:35Thursday.
00:36Yeah, Thursday they closed this road because of it jumping.
00:39So...
00:40Yeah.
00:41Yeah, so it's just important that we black out, make sure everything's cold.
00:45Otherwise it does have the chance to have embers going to unburnt stuff like that.
00:50Even though it is a bit damp, it still, it can still ignite if it finds dry stuff under
00:55that.
00:56Here now, looking across, probably a kilometre away, there's a plume of smoke coming up from
01:02an unburnt hillside.
01:04And so, would that have been an ember that's flown during the fire?
01:07I would say yes.
01:08It's spotted there, or it's come up from the side and the rain has put it out, but that's
01:13just been hidden away.
01:15And changing temperature now, and the wind has just picked it up and it's starting to
01:20smoke more and more as I look at it.
01:23This kind of ground, where it is still hot, where it's smouldering, where there are embers
01:26still alight, they can reignite and restart a fire in this area.
01:31There is unburnt land over there behind us, so we could potentially see fire here again
01:36if some of those hot spots aren't extinguished.
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