Good to see evidence in the sky of winter back-burning, where town councils pay teams of volunteer fireys (slang for volunteer fire fighters) to go out and burn undergrowth in an attempt to limit the fuel load ahead of bush-fire season.

Cold weather is the time to do that, much less chance the fire gets away.

That burning off had to have been done where the wind wasn’t so fierce, locally we had gusts of over 35 kph.