The fire is now at 32000 ha. We're getting a little ash, but no embers at this stage. Castle Forbes Bay, about 6 km to the South of us has just been evacuated.
Waterbombing is continuing NW and S of us.
I pulled out shortly after writing the above. We watched the Huon Council briefing session on Facebook this evening and it was pretty grim. The fire continues to grow, but, thankfully, there has been no loss of life.
We are still hopeful that our place might dodge the bullet. The fire is still to the S, W and NW of us with a prevailing NW breeze forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The Tas Fire Service have been bulldozing containment lines to the NW and W of us, so we are hopeful that the fire might bypass us.
We're just to the West of the red flame symbol.
The fire doubled in size today and has made a massive run into CFB today. That's the community impacted by the northernmost finger of fire front near the river above Geeveston.
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