A round of applause was given to the emergency services working on fires around Fingal at a community meeting on Friday.
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About 120 people attended the meeting. This was about the same number that attended a meeting earlier in the week.
Some residents of Mangana who went back into the town on Friday are being urged to leave before the predicted dangerous conditions expected on Saturday, Tasmania Police commander Brett Smith said.
"We are encouraging people who have made their way back to Mangana to find alternative accommodation," he said.
"We definitely don't want them there on Saturday."
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Break O'Day mayor Mick Tucker said what is going to eventuate from the fires is not going to be known until Saturday.
"But there has been a lot of assets deployed," he said.
Cr Tucker said the community had its fingers crossed that Saturday's conditions are not as bad as they are expected to be.
"It will be, they believe, too dangerous to go in and fight fires and attack it, so it'll be sit back, wait and defend," he said.
"They are extremely concerned about how serious it is going to be tomorrow."
The evacuation centre at Fingal Neighbourhood House remains open, and could do into Sunday depending what happens.
Mathinna Road was opened about midday and close be closed again, but Mangana Road remains closed. Works are continuing in relation to potentially dangerous trees.
The fire has burned more than 11,000 hectares.
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