Fears for missing residents as fire fighting continues
ABCTasmanian police say about 100 people are missing and several hundred have been displaced by bushfires that have ravaged the state over the past three days. "That's not to say that those people necessarily have come to any harm, but obviously we can't totally eliminate that until we've had confirmed contact with those individuals," he said. "Those people will be met by the Red Cross and other support agencies and there's a whole range of support services, including emergency accommodation," he said. "People need to understand that there is still a very active fire burning through there and we're looking at temperatures up in the high 20s again today, with people working off those roads, as well as all the dangerous trees and those sorts of things that are falling down around the place," Mr Holloway said. "People have shown up to make their donation but then realised we needed help, realised the society's volunteers are inundated and couldn't get things boxed up quickly enough," he said.
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