On Christmas Day morning there were some 74 bushfires burning across NSW, with almost 30 of those uncontained. Meanwhile, a watch and act warning remains in place for the Adelaide Hills.
NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons visited crews on Christmas morning at Colo High School on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts.
This photo taken on December 18, 2019 shows firefighters making arrangements to secure the residential area from an approaching bushfire in Dargan, some 120 kilometres from Sydney. Picture: Saeed Khan / AFP“This year we think about our drought-impacted communities across the state and, of course, those communities hit hardest by those bushfires,” she said.
On Wednesday morning there were some 74 bushfires burning across the state, with almost 30 of those uncontained. There has again been flareups throughout the day with crews attending to breakouts and undertaking asset protection, emergency services said. Slightly milder conditions on Wednesday were expected to give the state’s Country Fire Service some chance of bringing the 25,000-hectare blaze to heel. Similar weather conditions will be experienced tomorrow before temperatures and winds start to increase on Friday.
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