Fire Update 0630h 24 October

Southern Wallers Road / Vinegar Hill area

There was no wind for most of the night and that combined with low temperatures and high humidity meant that the fire hardly moved downhill.  A local temperature inversion seems to be holding the smoke down in the gullies where it "flows" downhill and makes it seem that the fire has moved much further than it really has.  By 4.00am there were no points of flame visible, where there had been a few at midnight and a lot just after sunset.

At the time of writing there is still no wind in the Vinegar Hill area.  The forecast for Gatton is for a maximum temperature of 24 degC and ESE winds of 21-24 km/h with Relative Humidity of 46-48%.  Current conditions are 14 degC, no wind, and 66% Relative Humidity.

Sandy Creek Road area

[from Judy D at 7.30pm last night]  Most of the day [23rd] the fire has crept in the gullies on the east side of Sandy Creek. At one stage there was a heavy cloud of smoke at the end of the road when a house was surrounded but undamaged. The fire then moved SE along the foot of the spur until about 5pm when the wind dropped a little and a backburn was lit from the control line right round the foot of the spur presumably to meet up with the fire coming the other way. Mostly the fire has been small, slow and very smoky. There are a few patches of fire still visible, but it seems to have settled down.