1/34Firefighters standing in burnt buttongrass. Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE***MUST CREDIT BOTH WARREN FREY AND TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE***
Firefighters battle dozens of fires
Firefighters are battling more than 70 fires across the state.
2/34Hoselay on ridgeline near Gordon River. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
3/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighters at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
4/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighers with aerial waterbombing at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
5/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighters at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
6/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighters at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
7/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighter Simon Pilkington at the Gell River fire. A soft bed of ash and a spot under some brush is the only refuge when the hourly weather reading showed 38C in the shade. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
8/34Smoke from an out-of-control bushfire in the Wilderness World Heritage Area in the South-West covered Hobart on January 4. Picture: AAP/Ethan James
9/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
10/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
11/34Satellite image of the fires burning in Tasmania on January 16, 2019. Picture: NASA
12/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
13/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
14/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
15/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
16/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
17/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
18/34Bushfire in Tasmania’s South-West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Picture: LYNDSEY EVANS
19/34Bushfire smoke haze over Mt Wellington. Picture: PHIL YOUNG
20/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighters at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
21/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighters at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
22/34Tasmania Fire Service firefighers at the Gell River fire. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
23/34Gell River firefighters prepare a bucket for aerial firebombing. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
24/34Gell River firefighters Simon Pilkington, left, Drummond Williamson and Anthony Cowles take a well-earned break. Picture: WARREN FREY/TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
25/34Parks and TFS firefighters watch for a waterbombing aircraft to strafe the fire edge before smothering the burnt remains with beaters/ hand tools. Picture: WARREN FREY / TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
26/34Parks and TFS firefighters smother the remains of the fire edge after aircraft water bombers saturate the area. Picture: WARREN FREY / TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
27/34Parks and TFS firefighters watch for a waterbombing aircraft to strafe the fire edge before smothering the burnt remains with beaters/ hand tools. Picture: WARREN FREY / TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
28/34Parks and TFS firefighters watch for a waterbombing aircraft to strafe the fire edge before smothering the burnt remains with beaters/ hand tools. Picture: WARREN FREY / TASMANIA FIRE SERVICE
29/34Rural Fire Service NSW members helping to battle the Gell River fire in the Tasmanian South West. Picture: NSW RFS
30/34The burnt remains around a small pond from the Gell River fire. Picture: NSW RFS
31/34Rural Fire Service NSW members helping to battle the Gell River fire in the Tasmanian South West. Picture: NSW RFS
32/34Rural Fire Service NSW members helping to battle the Gell River fire in the Tasmanian South West. Picture: NSW RFS
33/34The Fenton Forest fire camp and air base set up at Glenora. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
34/34NSW Rural Fire Service personnel assisting with fighting the fire at Lake Rhona in Tasmania’s south-west. Picture: NSW RURAL FIRE SERVICE / ANDREW MACDONALD
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