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UPDATE 11:03am 25/01/2021:
The Cherry Gardens fire in the Adelaide Hills has been downgraded to a watch and act.
#Bushfire Watch and Act for #CHERRY_GARDENS,_HICKS_HILL_ROAD #fire. Take action now as this bushfire may threaten your safety. If you are not prepared, leave now and if the path is clear, go to a safer place. #WAM ID=0005369 #SAFires https://t.co/ZcYK3e1GI9 pic.twitter.com/QTlSg3KGHL
— Country Fire Service (@CFSAlerts) January 24, 2021
Previously reported:
The Country Fire Service has classified the Cherry Gardens/Hicks Hill Road bushfire as Emergency status.
The CFS has issued the emergency warning for Longwood, Mylor and Biggs Flat in Mount Lofty Ranges.
#Bushfire Emergency Warning for #CHERRY_GARDENS,_HICKS_HILL_ROAD #fire. Wind conditions may change soon. #EWM ID=0005362 #SAFires https://t.co/HbbyPxgiXG pic.twitter.com/FjY9tkv9ym
— Country Fire Service (@CFSAlerts) January 24, 2021
“This fire may pose a threat to lives directly in its path,” the CFS website reads.
“Act now. Leave, if the path is clear to a safer place, as it will soon be too dangerous to drive.
“If you cannot leave, identify where you will seek shelter from the bushfire. Heat from the fire will kill you. Do not enter this area as conditions are dangerous.
“The CHERRY GARDENS, HICKS HILL ROAD fire is uncontrolled. This scrub fire is burning in a North Easterly direction towards Longwood, Mylor and Biggs Flat. Conditions are continually changing.
“CFS is currently experiencing continually changing wind conditions. This may cause the fire to change direction unexpectedly.
“People in the area should leave now or prepare to defend their homes before the wind changes direction.
“Power, water and mobile phone services may be lost. Road conditions may become very dangerous over the next few hours.
Fire fighters may soon be unable to prevent the fire spreading.”
An emergency warning and a watch and act message were in place for locations under threat at 9:39pm last night – including Hicks Hill Road, Orchard Road, Lewis Street, Frith Road near Cherry Gardens.
On Sunday night the scrub fire was burning “in a North Easterly direction towards Strathalbyn Road Echunga, Strathalbyn Road Mylor, Biggs Flat”… and “towards Heathfield, Upper Sturt, Aldgate, Bridgewater, Stirling, and Echunga. Conditions are continually changing”.
For updates visit the CFS website (www.cfs.sa.gov.au) or phone the Bushfire Information Hotline on 1800 362 361.
