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September 22nd, 2011 
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Central Australian cattle stations are losing vast areas of grazing country to fires.
A wildfire that has been burning for more than a week is still threatening a number of cattle stations south-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Bushfires NT senior officer Neil Phillips says despite being well prepared with fire breaks and containment lines, the blaze is taking its toll on Nummery, Indiana and Loves Creek stations.
He says Nummery homestead only survived last night because of the efforts of station staff who battled the blaze around the buildings.
“They defended the fire around the homestead before it went to the north,” he said.
“That fire, which came up out of the Simpson Desert, channelled through the sand dunes.
“At one stage it covered something like 70 kilometres in an afternoon.
“At one point, the flank on that fire when those strong south-easterlies developed was something like 150 kilometres long, which is pretty hard to imagine.”
Bushfires NT says containment lines on a second fire front held throughout the night across Allambi and Deep Well Stations but it has now moved across Maryvale Station.
The owners of Allambi Station, about 200 kilometres south-east of Alice Springs, say fire has destroyed nearly 70 per cent of their pasture.
Several fires have been burning on the property over the last two weeks.
Lochie Weir says this fire season is the biggest in a decade.
“At the moment, these fires are not even slowing down for hills,” he said.
Mr Weir says it is a shock to lose so much fodder so quickly.
“The issue is that so much country is being burnt,” he said.
“Our fodder is going to become an issue, so obviously we just hope that we get a summer rain soon.”
Meanwhile, a fire burning in the Territory is now threatening to cross in to South Australia and on to tracks used by travellers in the Simpson Desert.
The scrub fire is burning about 15 kilometres north of the border and 80 kilometres north-west of Poeppels Corner.
The South Australian Country Fire Service says drivers should use caution and know the risks before they travel.
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