They emerge from the scrub with soot-stained faces and arms aching from exhaustion.
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These firefighters and parks personnel from New South Wales are at the tail-end of a five-day deployment to help Tasmanians fight the West Coast bushfires.
And they've spent the majority of that time not with hoses in hand, but axes, shovels and chainsaws.
"The flames are pretty much gone but a lot of work remains," NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger David Croft said.
"We've found that the fire is burning very deeply underground and that's been a challenge for us.
"(We) use chainsaws to cut fallen logs and that sort of thing and then we have to physically dig the fire out of the ground and put water on it."
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This backbreaking work is part of the "mop up stage" for the bushfires that burned only a few kilometres away from Zeehan and Rosebery.
Mr Croft said the remote area crews were working to extinguish hotspots at the edges of the burnt zone.
"We want to make sure that if it dries out again, the fire doesn't spark up and get away on another day," he said.
"It's really just slow, methodical, hard work to make sure that this fire is properly out."
As Mr Croft and his team returned home on Friday, a new interstate deployment was on its way to help Tasmanians fight the Western Hills and Lynch Hill fires.
Senior officer Philip Harvey has helped coordinate the effort from Zeehan and said a surveillance flight this week returned good news about the two bushfires.
"At the moment they're not totally contained but we don't expect any more significant progress of the fire once we can get in and get out all the remaining hotspots," he said.
"We're pretty confident we can do that in the next few days, weather permitting."
While rain and cooler conditions have helped tame the bushfires, it has also hindered emergency workers.
The downpour has left unsealed roads needed to access the bushfires unusable so some crews have had to launch boats into the Pieman waterways.
But Senior Officer Harvey said he believed "the worst is over" for the Western Hills and Lynch Hill fires.
"It's pretty good, a big improvement but there's still a considerable amount of work to do. It's just hard work because it's remote area work," he said.
Mr Croft said his team from NSW had learnt a lot about fires from the experience.
"We've been looked after amazingly by the locals and made to feel very welcome," he said.
"Everyone waves at us, makes us feel really good."