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Destructive blaze leaves Adelaide hills heartbreak
Updated 33 minutes ago
VIDEO: House and shed lost in Adelaide hills blaze (7pm TV News SA)
A house has been lost in an Adelaide hills bushfire which has blackened more than 450 hectares.
By Friday evening the Country Fire Service (CFS) said firefighters were starting to get an upper hand but a long effort remained to quell the flames.
There was hope that rain forecast for the weekend would assist weary fire crews.
Spot fires were reported in other parts of the hills as the main blaze was fanned by northerly winds.
As the emergency reached a peak on Friday afternoon, police blocked traffic access on a number of hills roads.
SA Power Networks also said electricity supplies could be out for parts of the hills at high risk during the emergency.
A second public meeting was organised at Uraidla Hall in Greenhill Road at Uraidla to update residents on the fire danger, after an earlier meeting at lunchtime.
Hills resident Phillip Broderick told of hearing explosions as the bushfire engulfed his neighbour's house at Basket Range.
He thinks it was built by its current owners in the 1970s.
Mr Broderick said the explosions sounded like artillery.
"They were quite loud. I would say we are nearly 1,000 yards from that house they sounded like large detonations exploding. I expect they were gas bottles or the like, I mean if you've ever heard artillery go off they were like that," he said.
Mr Broderick said his own house was then in the path of the flames.
Patricia Michel told ABC Radio she had been watching the fire from a tower at the top of Marble Hill.
"We believe we probably saw the house burn because suddenly a great plume of black smoke went up in that area in Blockers Road, so it's a major concern to people who are on Blockers Road and it's heading towards Mawson Road and that's all private property," she said.
A shed also was burnt.
Another hills resident Geoffrey Bishop was about three kilometres from the firefront and said there was plenty of thick smoke.
"Pretty smoky and visibility out towards where the main part of the fire is low, about 300 metres and there's bits of fine ash and stuff in the air," he said.
Updated 33 minutes ago
VIDEO: House and shed lost in Adelaide hills blaze (7pm TV News SA)
A house has been lost in an Adelaide hills bushfire which has blackened more than 450 hectares.
By Friday evening the Country Fire Service (CFS) said firefighters were starting to get an upper hand but a long effort remained to quell the flames.
There was hope that rain forecast for the weekend would assist weary fire crews.
Spot fires were reported in other parts of the hills as the main blaze was fanned by northerly winds.
As the emergency reached a peak on Friday afternoon, police blocked traffic access on a number of hills roads.
SA Power Networks also said electricity supplies could be out for parts of the hills at high risk during the emergency.
A second public meeting was organised at Uraidla Hall in Greenhill Road at Uraidla to update residents on the fire danger, after an earlier meeting at lunchtime.
I would say we are nearly 1,000 yards from that house they sounded like large detonations exploding. I expect they were gas bottles or the like, I mean if you've ever heard artillery go off they were like that
Phillip Broderick
Phillip Broderick
Hills resident Phillip Broderick told of hearing explosions as the bushfire engulfed his neighbour's house at Basket Range.
He thinks it was built by its current owners in the 1970s.
Mr Broderick said the explosions sounded like artillery.
"They were quite loud. I would say we are nearly 1,000 yards from that house they sounded like large detonations exploding. I expect they were gas bottles or the like, I mean if you've ever heard artillery go off they were like that," he said.
Mr Broderick said his own house was then in the path of the flames.
Patricia Michel told ABC Radio she had been watching the fire from a tower at the top of Marble Hill.
"We believe we probably saw the house burn because suddenly a great plume of black smoke went up in that area in Blockers Road, so it's a major concern to people who are on Blockers Road and it's heading towards Mawson Road and that's all private property," she said.
A shed also was burnt.
Another hills resident Geoffrey Bishop was about three kilometres from the firefront and said there was plenty of thick smoke.
"Pretty smoky and visibility out towards where the main part of the fire is low, about 300 metres and there's bits of fine ash and stuff in the air," he said.
