Update Wednesday 4.50pm
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![A fire near Bannaby had burnt through five hectares by 5pm Wednesday. Accessibility is proving an issue. Picture by RFS. A fire near Bannaby had burnt through five hectares by 5pm Wednesday. Accessibility is proving an issue. Picture by RFS.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/FkT3ZusFw5YrTvZCipmLUF/10be63f3-444b-42d0-b856-bf85bda07e6a.JPEG/r0_147_750_1083_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
A fire near Bannaby is still out of control and at advice level.
It has grown to five hectares in size, some of which is in inaccessible land, RFS Southern Tablelands operations officer, Mitchell Butler said.
"Crews are working to douse the front but it is a large front and so they are (liaising) with the helicopter water bomber," he said.
The front is about 100 metres long and flames are one metre high.
No property is under threat.
![RFS crews are responding to a fire on Hanworth Road, Bannaby. File photo by Louise Thrower. RFS crews are responding to a fire on Hanworth Road, Bannaby. File photo by Louise Thrower.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/FkT3ZusFw5YrTvZCipmLUF/a7543c51-afb6-4efb-8d32-3528091e8bbd.jpg/r0_219_3926_2801_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Wednesday 4pm
Aerial support has been brought in to help douse a fire burning out of control near Taralga.
The fire broke out on a Hanworth Road, Bannaby property shortly before 2pm Wednesday, RFS Southern Tablelands operations officer, Mitchell Butler said.
Eleven units, comprising 25 personnel, and a helicopter from Camden are on the scene, some 30km southeast of Taralga.
Mr Butler said no property was under potential threat.
Crews arrived to find the outbreak alight in grass and scrub, measuring about 100 metres by 300 metres. The wind has since picked up, increasing its size.
![The fire broke out at Bannaby, some 20km southeast of Taralga. The fire broke out at Bannaby, some 20km southeast of Taralga.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/FkT3ZusFw5YrTvZCipmLUF/db4d4184-4812-4084-be6f-8054241ab1fd.jpg/r0_3_768_481_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
It is burning in hilly and scrubby terrain and stands at advice level.
"We are asking people to monitor conditions," Mr Butler said.
"The main focus is on firefighting operations and we remind people to revisit their survival guide. If they see a fire, report it immediately to triple zero."
Mr Butler said it was the largest response to a fire in the southern tablelands so far this season.
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