Fires upgraded as 'perfect storm' heatwave looms

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Fire-ravaged Queensland is bracing for searing temperatures up to 40 degrees as exhausted firefighters struggle to contain bushfires burning across the state.

The temperatures will ramp up the fire danger as residents in the path of a monster fire fled as the blaze closed in on the town of Crows Nest, north of Toowoomba, yesterday. "This fire is out of control, we are doing all we can to contain it, but we will not risk limb and life."

 

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