Two men have been arrested and a family of three have been taken to hospital after a fire burnt through 33 hectares of grass in Adelaide's northern suburbs.
A grass fire has damaged a shed and several glass houses in Adelaide's northern suburbs .Two men are expected to be charged and a family of three have been taken to hospital after a grass fire burnt through 33 hectares of grass in Adelaide's northern suburbs .
SA Country Fire Service volunteers on 38 trucks were supported by Metropolitan Fire Service and Ventia Fire from the nearby Edinburgh RAAF base.CFS deputy group officer Thomas Walsh said crews managed to contain the fire but would continue to monitor overnight under changing weather conditions."In this situation where we had those bigger paddocks, we were able to get those fixed wing water bombers in.
"The three patients we've transported through to hospital was a family next to where the fire started, trying to defend their own home," he said. "We're doing a sweep through there, there's 20 vulnerable patients that we're currently checking and hopefully they're all OK and nothing would come of it," he said.
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