AUSTRALIA: Hunter Valley feels the heat as bush fires spread
By Chris Brook-Carter | 3 January 2002
Australia's Upper-Hunter wine region was put on high alert yesterday after the bush fires across New South Wales were driven to within 3km of Broke. Cessnock was under threat last night as firefighters battled a huge fire front bursting out of the Yengo National Park into farmland west of the town.
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Australia's Upper-Hunter wine region was put on high alert yesterday after the bush fires across New South Wales were driven to within 3km of Broke. Cessnock was under threat last night as firefighters battled a huge fire front bursting out of the Yengo National Park into farmland west of the town.

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