Bairnsdale incident controller Ben Rankin updates reporters on bushfires in Australia's East Gippsland area. Rainkin says the area is facing extreme fire danger. 'We will get big column development today and quite significant runs of fire if anything breaks out of the control lines we've currently got,' Rainkin says. He says a cool change expected around midnight will present its own challenges and may lead to new runs of fire• Victoria fires live: emergency warnings in place for East Gippsland bushfires – latest

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 03:22 UTC