According to the source, the action is now possible as temperatures and winds have eased, which allowed the creation of physical barriers to avoid potential damage and further fires in the coming days.
Fitzsimmons said the measures also included enabling roads to access water sources for tank cars, irrigation of chemical retardants that limit the spread of flames, mainly to urban areas, among others.
The chief of the fire authority of Victoria state, Gavin Freeman, set out that rains helped to extinguish the bushfires burning in some spots of New South Wales.
Firefighters have built 1,500 kilometers of fire containment lines, according to Freeman. He confirmed that five of the 25 firefighters killed since September in the efforts to combat the bushfires died in this region.
According to official Australian sources, the almost 200 fires registered on the mainland island have an economic cost of almost 500 million US dollars.
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