One community has been cut off by bushfire and told to seek shelter and six other towns are packing up valuables and evacuating their homes as fires continue to rage in central Queensland.
Firefighters can't stop the fire advancing towards the seaside hamlet of Tinnanbar, which is between Maryborough and Gympie, and say the blaze has reached the road.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is seen outside the Kabra Hotel during as she tours a bushfire affected area in Kabra, Queensland. Source: AAP
"Tinnanbar Road is being impacted by fire and is unsafe. The safest option is to shelter in place," authorities warn.
Six other communities are evacuating, two not far from Baffle Creek, the epicentre of the state's bushfire crisis.
People have been told to leave Winfield and Captain Creek, not far from Baffle
Creek where fires have been burning for almost a week.
Residents have also been told to get out of Stanwell and Kabra, near Rockhampton.
Both neighbour Gracemere, outside Rockhampton, where a bushfire forced the mass evacuation of 8500 people on Wednesday.
A fifth community facing evacuation is The Caves, about 25km north of Rockhampton.
Evacuations were underway for the 22 people at Broken River, east of Rockhampton, who have been ringed by fire for days.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has flown to the fire zone, and ironically had not long left Kabra when an alert was issued for residents to leave.
At least one home was destroyed at Kabra on Wednesday.
Ms Palaszczuk has spent the day warning Queenslanders that the fire crisis is not over, despite a slight easing of conditions.
"We're not out of this yet," she said, as more than 100 fires continued to burn across the state.
Jeanette Schwindt inspects her burnt out water tanks after a bushfires swept through the area the day before in Mount Larcom, Queensland. Source: AAP
The premier, police and fire authorities have expressed mounting frustration over some people's refusal to heed evacuation orders.
Ms Palaszczuk's annoyance was clear on Thursday when she said "some people are not getting the message", a message that has included very clear warnings that people could burn to death.
Baffle Creek has been threatened by bushfires for almost a week but some people are hiding so they won't be forced to leave, a local woman says.
Karen Smallmon listened and left days ago, but says others are actively hiding from police despite fires raging nearby.
Rhonda Anderson evacuates herself and her horse to safety near Mount Larcom, Queensland, Wednesday, November 28, 2018. Source: AAP
"They're all just dodging the police because if the police catch them they'll escort them out," she told AAP on Thursday, adding she knew of one person who had been escorted out in handcuffs.
"They don't think they're in danger, they think they can see it coming."
Asked about people hiding, police replied they had been required to evacuate occupants in the Baffle Creek and Rules Beach areas over the past four days, and while most complied, some declined to leave.
"Police returned to these properties on a number of occasions and the occupants were evacuated," they said in a statement to AAP.
