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Bushfire risk high across dry Qld
28 Jun 2004
Sixty per cent of Queensland is at high risk from bushfires and grassfires, including most of the south-east corner, mainly due to dry undergrowth and record low rainfall. Another 22 per cent of Queensland is at moderate risk.
Areas most at threat include the coastal region from Bundaberg to Rockhampton where rainfall levels have been up to 100mm lower than average, and the region north of Cairns.
The coming Summer will be the first since the establishment of the national Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre in December 2003, which was established in the wake of the devastating 2001 bushfires in Victoria and NSW.
The Courier-Mail, 28/6/04, page 3.
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