Smoke hanging Orange over the next few days is no cause for alarm according to the RFS, with the haze having drifted 400km from a bushfire in the Pilliga National Park.
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The 57,000-hectare fire has been burning for the better part of a week, and closed the Newell Highway between Coonabarabran and Narrabri.
The fire is still burning but is listed as “being controlled” on the RFS website.
RFS Canobolas Zone operations officer Brett Bowden said he had received calls on Wednesday morning about smoke over Orange but said there was no need to worry.
“It’s just smoke drift from fires from further north, it will continue and we’ll have it for the next couple of days,” he said.
“People shouldn’t be alarmed.
“When major fires occur the smoke will drift hundreds of kilometres.
“After the Canberra fires of 2003 we were covered for days, when there are fires in the Blue Mountains and there’s an easterly we get it, too.”
Max Stainkamph
Max joined the CWD in September 2017, leaving the big smoke of Melbourne to come to Orange, where he stayed until 2020.
Max joined the CWD in September 2017, leaving the big smoke of Melbourne to come to Orange, where he stayed until 2020.
