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November 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Hundreds of evacuated residents were preparing to spend a night on the beach after a raging bushfire swept through their town on Western Australia’s southwest coast yesterday.
More than 100 firefighters were last night battling the blaze which has so far destroyed more than 20 homes and 750 hectares of bushland after a prescribed morning burn got out of control in Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, about 280km south of Perth.
There were no reports of injuries, but more than 200 residents of the coastal town of Prevelly were evacuated to the beach.
About 50 others in the Kilcarnup area were sent to the nearby tourist town of Margaret River, where they will spend the night.
Surfpoint Backpacker’s Hostel manager Will Carter said he and more than 200 Prevelly residents were still on the beach as night fell, after being forced from their homes earlier in the day.
“The fires look a lot more under control, but we’re still not allowed to go back to our properties,” he told AAP about 6pm (WST).
Earlier Mr Carter described how he and other residents had received a call from police to evacuate but had nowhere else to go.
“We travelled to the river mouth, which is near the ocean, because the main road is blocked off,” he said.
“There’s one road in and out of Prevelly, but when there’s a fire just like last time everyone in Prevelly is put at risk.”
WA’s Department of Conservation (DEC) confirmed that more than 20 homes had been engulfed in flames.
Mr Carter said it was “unbelievable” the DEC had caused the fire.
The department confirmed yesterday the bushfire was caused by a controlled burn getting out of hand.
“It’s a laughable scenario,” Mr Carter said.
“The wind has been blowing so much down here today, I cannot believe they decided to do a burn today.”
DEC spokesman Tim Foley told AAP firefighters hoped to get the blaze under control when winds died down later in the evening.
“We’re hoping to get a containment line around the fire by tonight,” he said.
“Right now (6.30pm WST), it’s still uncontained.”
Roads in the area had been closed, and a relocation point has been set up in Margaret River, about 10km east of the blaze, for those evacuated.
Police have issued a travel warning for the greater Margaret River region, advising motorists to avoid roads around Prevelly and Kilcarnup and to check with emergency services or the local shire.
School leavers heading to the southwest region for weekend celebrations were also being asked to take care on the roads.
About 60km east of Margaret River, a bushfire warning was issued for an area 30km southwest of Nannup, where a blaze was raging in state forest.
No homes or lives were threatened.
Yet another bushfire was being battled northeast of Denmark, about 415km southeast of Perth and about 230km southeast of Margaret River, again with no threat to homes or lives.
The three WA bushfires were sparked as temperatures around the state rose and fierce winds blew.
They also came as the Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) warned WA was facing one of its most dangerous bushfire seasons in recent history.
Four years of drought, followed by unusually high winter rains, had caused a build-up of dead timber, grass and flammable bushland.
“There’s a lot of fuel out there, and the more fuel we have, the more intense the fires will be,” FESA spokesman Allen Gale told AAP.
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