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Christmas Day fire sends Sunbury residents fleeing
Australia
A helicopter helps the effort to control a fire in Sunbury on Christmas Day. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
Hot and windy conditions pushed an out-of-control grassfire into acreages on Melbourne's outer northern fringe on Christmas Day with emergency warnings sending residents fleeing family get togethers.
The fast-moving fire was first spotted as a column of smoke coming from near Williams Rise on the northern end of Sunbury...
Incident controller David Nugent told the ABC the heat and wind created tricky conditions...
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