The CFA has called for people to take care during Thursday and Friday when total fire bans have been declared in the south-west.
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Charles Dillion from the Hopkins CFA Group made the call after fire threatened two houses and burnt out about three hectares of farmland off Esterly Ridge Road at Cudgee on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Dillon said fire crews would be stationed at the fire site overnight into Thursday to quickly get on top of any flare ups before the forecast heatwave struck on Thursday and Friday.
Ten CFA units responded to the fire that was reported about 2.30pm and brought under control at the fence lines of two properties about 90 minutes later.
Mr Dillon said the cause of the fire had still to be determined.
However the landholder, Dan Guillaumier, said he saw hay bales smouldering before the fire broke out and spread quickly across the dry grass in the paddocks.
Mr Dillon said conditions at the time of the fire were not particularly windy but the fire had still managed to travel about 20 kilometres an hour to cover three hectares of grazing paddocks.
He said the CFA brigades did a sterling job in pulling the fire up before it reached a house a few hundred metres away from the suspected origin of the fire.
Mr Guillaumier said he desperately tried to extinguish the fire but was shocked at how quickly it spread.
He praised the quick response of the CFA that had kept damage to a minimum.