A “monster” fire with a 140km front on the Barkly Tableland has burned through 10,000 square kilometres of pastoral country since starting last Tuesday.
The uncontrolled blaze has destroyed grass, fences and water in an area four-times the size of the Australian Capital Territory affecting several Barkly cattle stations.
Landholders and their staff have been fighting fires and making preparations to protect livestock from further fronts breaking out, but strong changing winds are making the vast blaze difficult to control.
“It is a monster fire and it is starting other fires,”…
