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China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-28 08:15

New bushfires put out

Firefighters contained eight new bushfires in Australia's Victoria state on Friday, a day of extreme fire danger three weeks after 210 people were killed in in the southern state in the nation's worst blazes.

About 200 schools were closed and people in towns near the fires were put on high alert, authorities fearing high temperatures and strong winds could lead to a repeat of the Feb 7 firestorms.

But with more than 3,000 firefighters deployed or on standby, authorities managed to contain the eight new outbreaks, although dozens of fires continued to burn across the state.

(China Daily 02/28/2009 page11)

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