Act chief minister Andrew Barr said the threat was not yet over and that there may be weeks of firefighting ahead.
Wildfires that threatened chief minister l, Canberra, over the weekend have been brought under control as containment lines held and hot and windy conditions eased, prompting authorities to lift a state of emergency.
While fire in the Australian capital territory act, home to the capital city, has spread to more than 55,000 hectares close to a quarter of the territory’s entire landmass, the heat fueling the danger is subsiding.
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The act declared a state of emergency leading into the weekend, which gave authorities greater powers to order evacuations, close roads and take control of properties as fire threatened suburban areas.
It was the first time an emergency was declared in Australia’s capital since 2003 when fires destroyed almost 500 houses and led to four deaths.
