Thurs  31.1.19   2050

The fire is now at just over 56000 ha - about 139000 acres.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that during today the firies were able to strengthen containment lines in several areas to guide the fire away from homes and villages.  Judbury, Glen Huon and Lonnavale are still under Emergency Watches and doing it really tough.  However, Franklin is back to Watch and Wait: not out of the woods yet, but a much improved situation to last night.
I'm back home now and Sue will come back tomorrow if the situation is the same as tonight.
We received 1 or 2 mm of rain today which cooled the place down and raised the humidity, giving the firefighters opportunity to work on back burning, etc, in several areas.  Water bombing was going on South, West and North-West of our place until about 1830.
Still praying, but less stressed than last night.
Still no lives lost and no more structures lost today.  These firies are magnificent!