SA: Bushfires on SA's Eyre Peninsula

AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2005
SA: Bushfires on SA's Eyre Peninsula

Waterbombing aircraft have helped contain a bushfire in a conservation park .. on South
Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

Some one thousand hectares of the Middle Park conservation park have been burnt in
the blaze .. which has also damaged 300 hectares of private land.

The Country Fire Service says 100 firefighters and three waterbombers have contained
the fire to the park.

The CFS says another fire on the Eyre Peninsula has burnt 18 thousand hectares of scrub
near Pinkawillinie.

A total fire ban has been declared for SA tomorrow .. with temperatures forecast to
top 40 degrees throughout the state.

AAP RTV sl/tm/rj

KEYWORD: BUSHFIRES SA (ADELAIDE)

2005 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.