5/1/01 08:37 Victor Harbor and Lofty Strike Teams arrive at the staging area on the second day on Kangaroo Island, to take over the control of another fire started by lighting on 4/1/01at the eastern side of the Flinders Chase National Park, Mount Taylor. The above fire eventually being contained on 8/1/01 with 2,500 hectares burnt and 250 CFS fighters on scene.

5/1/01 08:38 Victor Harbor and other fire crews were brought in on several buses from Kingscote, to relieve other crews who had been out all night putting in control lines. The fire at this stage is not contained, with the main front approximately 2 kilometres south of the staging area, burning in dense bushland. These crews conducted back burns and suppressed outbreaks outside the control lines for about 14 hours that day, eventually stopping for tea at about 11pm.

5/1/01 19:39 This is the northern control line known as 'Anderson Sector' of which Victor Harbor crew were placed in control, with the task of creating back-burns in front of the main fire front and to control spotting. This task made more difficult by patches of scrub on both sides of the control line.

5/1/01 19:43 Lower Inman 24 crew and appliance overseeing some the back-burning carried out ahead of the fire front. These back-burns also caused some spotting across the control lines, but all outbreak were quickly controlled by the crews.

5/1/01 19:58 This smoke is from the back-burn which caused appliances to be located in heavy smoke due to the danger of spotting. Spotting from this fire general occurred within several hundred metres of the control line, with visibility at times reduced to about 6 metres.

5/1/01 20:56 Tim Steeles of Hindmarsh Valley Brigade is holding one of the 4 fire-lighting torches used for the back-burns in the Anderson Sector. This section of bushland was the last back-burn for the day before crew change over. These back-burning operations successfully holding the fire front on the northern control line (Anderson Sector).