A total of seven houses have been lost this bushfire season in addition to other structure losses such as sheds. 

Overnight an additional property was lost in the Huon Valley bringing the total to four from the Riveaux Road fire and three from the Great Pine Tier fire in the Central Plateau. 

There have also been properties that have received some moderate damage. 

TFS deputy chief officer Bruce Byatt said the Brittons Swamp fire posed challenges to firefighters on Monday. 

“Communities in the north need to be mindful of the potential spotting, that’s ember attack, from this fire. Those areas include Scotchtown, Christmas Hills and Brittons Swamp,” Mr Byatt said. 

Mr Byatt said the service experienced significant fire activity on Sunday. 

“Fire broke containment lines on three of the four main fires, these were at Brittons Swamp, Great Pine Tier and Riveaux Road,” Mr Byatt said. 

“The Great Pine Tier breakout took a significant run of eight kilometres to the north of Liawenee across to Reynolds Neck where properties were defended by firefighters and homeowners.”

“The community can have confidence the fire service are strengthening those containment lines and they enable the protection of our communities, our infrastructure and our environment,” Mr Byatt said. 

Bureau of Meteorology acting state manager Simon McCulloch said there are no high fire dangers expected over the next couple of days. 

“Into Thursday, the interaction of a trough over Tasmania and a trough over the mainland will result in perhaps the most promising rainfall we have seen for a while,” Mr McCulloch said. 

“The most likely areas for significant rain are the north and north-east, around 10 to 30 millimetres of rain.

“About 5 to 25 millimetres of rain about the central-west and south-east.

“Across the whole state an average of around the 10 to 20 millimetre mark. 

Mr McCulloch said it is likely there will be steady rainfalls into western and south-western Tasmania across a four day period from Friday. 

“We could be accumulating 10 to 15 millimetres a day,” Mr McCulloch said. 

“There’s not a lot of relief there for the Central Plateau or the east.”

“With the weather cooling own we cannot become complacent,” Mr Byatt said. 

“The rain we receive later in the week may not be sufficient to extinguish these fires.”

Mr Byatt said it was disappointing police and TFS door knocks to get residents to evacuate in the Reynolds Neck area on Sunday were not followed in all cases. 

“It’s fortunate we are able to report no lives were lost,” Mr Byatt said. 

“It puts additional stress on our firefighting teams when we have to re-enter those environments. 

“We’ve had to get Critical Incident Stress Teams out to assist our firefighters because they are stressed in the knowledge that they have people at risk.”

Tasmania Police southern regional controller Commander Tony Cerritelli said emergency services are putting themselves in the place of danger for a reason.

“We haven’t lost anyone at the moment, we don’t want to lose anyone,” Commander Cerritelli said. 

“Generally the public have been really good. The only time I’ve heard of any push-back is with these recent evacuations.

“It’s a partnership, it’s about working together to keep people safe.”

Mr Byatt said the TFS was working hard to keep staff rotating and keep fatigue levels down. 

“We’ve got over 5000 volunteer firefighters across Tasmania and we have approximately 500 people involved in the firefight,” Mr Byatt said. 

“As with any campaign fire, people have lives to lead as well.

“To sustain a campaign that stretches into weeks is difficult.”

Four paramedics arrived from Victoria on Sunday to help bolster Ambulance Tasmanian services during the bushfires. 

With additional Ambulance Tasmania crews deployed the areas under the threat of fire, and some personnel themselves potentially impacted by the fires, the Victorian paramedics will work alongside Tasmanian paramedics for two weeks to help ease some of the increased pressure posed by the bushfires.

Leader of the opposition Bill Shorten showed his support for Tasmanians during the bushfire crisis during a visit to the Huonville Evacuation Centre on Monday. 

Mr Shorten said he was impressed by how Tasmanians have responded to this immediate fire emergency. 

“The rest of Australia is aware of the fires that you’ve been fighting, not just in the Huon Valley but in the Central Highlands and North-Western Tasmania,” Mr Shorten said. 

“The blessing is that no one’s died. You can always rebuild a house, but if you lose someone you lose them forever.”