Dunn’s Road Bush Fire Damage to Batlow NSW Environment January 2020 Video. Dunn’s Road bush fire passed through Batlow area on Saturday 4 January, 2020. Batlow Road was closed for almost one week period. The Old Tumbarumba Road was closed for much longer time.
Both road run on high ridges, 50-100 meter ridge top between fence lines between properties and cleared paddocks. The ridge where the road runs is full of old eucalyptus trees, massive old 4-6 feet diameter old trees. Once the grass fire runs up the paddocks to the tree filled ridge tops there is so much wood on top of the ridges, trees, shrubs, live and dead trees. The ridge roads are like a fire reaching gun powder magazine. The relatively small RFS Fire engines have no means to put out such out of control extreme fuel loded fires on the high ground tree loaded ridges surrounded by grass covered fields and orchards. The tradition of the ridge road tree jungle dies out slowly.
Next to the ridge road tree jungle are farms, orchards, stocks, feed lots, paddocks, sheds and more.
Watch this video from the Batlow area.
Thursday 16. 2020
Dunns Road Bush Fire Update
“The status of this fire is Being Controlled. This means Effective strategies are in operation or planned for the entire perimeter of the fire.
The Dunn’s Road Fire is 20 km west of the ACT border and 46.7 km from the urban interface.
It is currently 331,981 hectares in size and is still burning within proposed containment lines.”