00:00Plumes of smoke billowing from remote areas on Ghari, formerly Fraser Island.
00:08This is how rangers are preparing the World Heritage listed site ahead of the warmer months.
00:15Recently we used the helicopter in order to get a large area of the southern part of the island burnt.
00:21The aerial burns aim to prevent a catastrophic wildfire,
00:25like the one that was sparked by an illegal campfire and burned half of the island in 2020.
00:31Recent rainfall has hampered their efforts by encouraging undergrowth
00:36and reducing the opportunity for controlled burning.
00:39The weather this year has been extremely challenging
00:42and I think any fire practitioner that you talk to throughout this region will be saying the same thing.
00:47Yes, the rain has impeded some of those planned burns,
00:51but as soon as the conditions allow we'll be back out there reducing that risk in the community.
00:57Some communities are already seeing increased bushfire activity.
01:01The far north of the state is drying out quite rapidly
01:05and we've already seen bushfires and escaped hazard reduction burns
01:09in that central region area of Queensland as well.
01:12The far north, central Queensland and the western Downs all considered hot spots,
01:17following a wet winter and expected above average rainfall in spring.
01:23Firefighters have been battling a large bushfire here in Bundaberg.
01:28It's a reminder of what the conditions could be like in the coming weeks.
01:33We ask landowners and land managers to be really vigilant about that.
01:37Even though there's been a lot of rainfall, it doesn't mean that there's a reduced risk
01:40and people need to be really mindful of that.
01:42Lighting gas is where you are going to cause some Ram progress.
01:45So you know what happened in the century
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