The bushfire that ignited in National Park at South Durras yesterday afternoon is now under control, and the focus will turn to investigating how it started.
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Firefighters worked through the night battling the bushfire that started at about 1.30pm yesterday.
The fire burnt through about 40 hectares of National Park and crews managed to bring it under control by 11.30pm.
Far South Coast Rural Fire Service team manager John Cullen said it wasn’t clear how the fire started, but it definitely didn’t start from a previous burn.
He said someone may have lit it.
It is believed the fire started west of an old gravel pit near Bentley Arm, about 5km from the Princes Highway, and started spreading east towards Fern Drive.
“The key thing was we didn’t want it to get around the caravan park,” Mr Cullen said.
Yesterday afternoon RFS crews backburned from Fern Drive to contain the fire, and bulldozed a containment line to the north of the blaze.
Mr Cullen said they had to watch the hot and windy conditions which continued into the night, as it may have caused the fire to break containment lines.
However, by 11.30pm, he said it was controlled.
There was one dozer and three trucks still on scene today to completely extinguish the fire.
RFS crews from Eurobodalla and the Shoalhaven, and a National Parks team helped battle the blaze.
The cause of the fire will now be investigated.
