Australian authorities working to protect Outback town against huge wildfire

A large fire is burning near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia (Bushfires NT via AP)

Emergency crews are working to protect the Australian town of Tennant Creek with containment lines as a huge wildfire threatened the remote Outback community of 3,000.

The fire has scorched 3,900 square miles of grass and scrubland in the Northern Territory east of Tennant Creek, a former gold mining town.