Bushfire season start delayed to November in ACT

Jasper Lindell
September 18 2021 - 5:30am
A pyrocumulonimbus cloud forms over the bushfire in Namadgi National Park in January 2020. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
A pyrocumulonimbus cloud forms over the bushfire in Namadgi National Park in January 2020. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The ACT will delay the start of its official bushfire season by a month for the second year in a row, with fire risk expected to be below normal in spring.

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Jasper Lindell

Jasper Lindell

Assembly Reporter

Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.

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