(VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - 29 December 2019) Victoria bushfires: East Gippsland fires update

Bairnsdale incident controller Ben Rankin updates reporters on bushfires in Australia's East Gippsland area. Rankin says the area is facing extreme fire danger. 'We will get big column development today and quite significant runs of fire if anything breaks out of the control lines we've currently got,' Rankin says. He says a cool change expected around midnight will present its own challenges and may lead to new runs of fire

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