Vic: Firefighters work through the night to contain blaze

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2009
Vic: Firefighters work through the night to contain blaze

MELBOURNE, Feb 7 AAP - More than 100 firefighters worked in shifts overnight carving
out control lines to try to contain a fire burning in a state park near Pakenham in Melbourne's
east.

Victoria is bracing itself for oven-like conditions on Saturday with temperatures soaring
to 43 degrees accompanied by gale force north to northeasterly winds - the perfect ingredients
for fierce bushfires.

The rest of southeast Australia is also gearing up for a horror weekend of extreme
heat and bushfires.

In Adelaide, the temperature is …