Strike Team - Tulka/Port Lincoln - February 2 2001

Sturt CFS flew a Crew of 8 to Port Lincoln to assist the operations at the Tulka Fire in the Lincoln National Park and ajoining areas. These were part of more than 200 CFS fire fighters brought in from the Mount Lofty ranges, Fleurieu Peninsula and the Mid North.

The fire burnt 11-thousand hectares of scrub, half of that within the Lincoln National Park.

Nine shacks in the Toolka North area were destroyed by the fire, four others have been seriously damaged and two moderately damaged.

Six bull dozers chained a fifteen kilometre long fire break through the Lincoln National Park.

A one kilometre line of retardant was dropped by bomber aircraft to protect a colony of Brush Tailed Bettongs at Cape Donnington in the Lincoln National Park.

The retardant line will also protect several cars belonging to visitors to the National Park which remain at Cape Donnington Lighthouse.

Smoke from the fire blanketed the Flerieu Peninsula, including the Adelaide metropolitan area.

Two groups of CFS firefighters from the Mount Lofty Ranges, Fleurieu Peninsula and Gawler areas which include the Sturt firefighters, who were brought in to help fight the fire, will flew back to Adelaide on Sunday February 4.