Video transcript - Seen smoke lately?

Seen smoke lately?

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ACT Parks and Conservation implements a prescribed burn program each year to reduce possible bushfire fuel loads.

Prescribed burns are carried out in predetermined areas under specific weather conditions.

They reduce fire risk and protect assets such as buildings.

Burns can also be done for ecological reasons such as regenerating native grasslands.

Trained fire fighters perform these operation. Every effort is made to do them in weather that reduces the impact of smoke.

Fire managers assess conditions on the fire ground to determine when it is safe to leave the area.

Smoke and flames will be extinguished up to 20 metres from the edge of any prescribed burn prior to personnel leaving.

Stumps and heavy logs may still smoke and small flames remain visible in a burn area after fire trucks have left. This is normal.

Fire crews continue to patrol and monitor the area until no smoke is visible for 24 hours.

For more information phone Access Canberra on 13 22 81 or follow @ACT_Parks on Twitter.