Freo Submerged in Smoke

The pall of smoke over the Metropolitan Region of Perth, including Fremantle today, caused by prescribed burns in the hills and beyond, is horrendous.

Among other things it has sparked a public health warning from the Department of Health..

At Fremantle Port you can hardly make out the vessels on the other side of Victoria Quay.

Deanna Shanahan, our head photographer, took this sequence of images earlier.