Thursday, March 1, 2012

Vic: Low cloud hampers fire spotting

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Vic: Low cloud hampers fire spotting

Low cloud is hampering airborne fire-spotters checking for fresh bushfire outbreaksafter lightening strikes in Victoria's tinder-dry high country overnight.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment says warmer weather later in the morningshould shift the cloud, allowing the aerial reconnaissance.

Lightning was recorded near Heyfield to the west of the massive Bogong fire in thestate's east, which has torched almost one million hectares of Victoria's high …

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