UPDATE TUESDAY 2:30PM
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The Taylors Creek Road fire has torn through 1969 hectares and has been upgraded to emergency warning status.
Property and stock are under threat in the Mount Fairy and Boro areas.
The blaze is burning east and has crossed the Goulburn Road, west of Hazelldell Road, past Tarago.
RFS incident controller for the Lake George zone Tim Carroll said property owners in the area should take shelter as the fire approached, activate survival plans and monitor the RFS website.
“The fire is moving very fast and and we have not been able to get trucks to every property in front of it,” he said.
More aerial resources are on their way, including a large air tanker and air crane from Sydney. Thirty brigades, comprising 100 firefighters are on the ground.
Winds are gusting up to 40km/h.
“It is burning through grassland but the challenges today are the high temperatures and good grass growth, making for a fast moving fire.
UPDATE TUESDAY 1PM:
Three helicopters and two fixed-wing planes have been tasked to the Taylors Creek fire, which has burnt out more than 100 hectares.
Extra brigades and a strike team from Goulburn are assisting the effort.
ACT NSW fire liaison officer Greg Potts said the 100-hectare Currandooley fire had now crossed the Tarago Road, south-west of the township.
The road has been closed in the northern section, some 500 metres from the Taylors Road intersection.
Meantime, a fire nearby at Wamboin, which burnt through 5ha and threatened properties, has been controlled. Resources have been diverted to the Tarago fire.
The alert for the fire at Tarago is watch and act. Residents have been told to enact their Bushfire Survival Plans.
The Neighbourhood Safer Place located at Wamboin Community Hall, Bingley Road, Wamboin is now open.
The Rural Fire Service is reminding residents that a Neighbourhood Safer Place is a place of last resort and may not have hemergency services at the location.
UPDATE TUESDAY 12:30PM
The Rural Fire Service is determining if any properties are under threat near the Taylors Creek Road fire.
The blaze is burning towards Taylors Creek Road.
The service’s operations officer Daniel Osborne has nevertheless urged residents to remain vigilant, monitor the threat and activate fire action plans.
More resources are enroute to the blaze on the Currandooley property, 10km northeast of Bungendore. Mr Osborne said this included extra brigades and an aircraft.
Infigen Energy’s general manager of strategy and corporate affairs, Richie Farrell confirmed the fire was not close to the Capital Wind farm’s turbines.
“We have a fire action plan in place and are liaising with the RFS. We will escalate that plan if necessary,” he said.
UPDATE: TUESDAY 11:30AM
A fire southeast of Goulburn has burnt through 100 hectares near the Capital Wind Farm.
The Rural Fire Service has declared the blaze on the Currandooley property on Taylors Creek Road, near Tarago as ‘out of control.’
RFS operations officer Daniel Osborne said the fire broke out shortly after 10am. No properties are under threat and it’s understood the wind farm turbines are unaffected at this stage.
Seven brigades, comprising 26 personnel from the Southern Tablelands and Lake George are fighting the outbreak.
“The northern flank of the fire is continuing to burn but crews are focusing on that and are confident they’ll gain the upper hand shortly,” Mr Osborne said.
Wind is blowing at 15km/h in the area, below a forecast 40km/h. Authorities declared a very high fire risk today.
Meantime, Taylors Creek Road resident Joan Limon said her husband Max was out fighting the outbreak with the local brigade. She could see smoke in the distance.
“The wind is picking up and that’s a worry. It’s already 29.5 degrees,” she said.
Mrs Limon told The Post she wasn’t feeling very safe.
“I never feel safe until Max is home,” she said.
The blaze is the largest in the area this season. A fire burnt 20 hectares at neighbouring property, ‘Pylara, two weeks ago but three brigades responded quickly. It started after a crow landed on the crossbow of an electricity line, causing it to short out.