Terrifying scenes have emerged from Sydney's south-west, where firefighters were forced to run from an 'explosion' of fire on Thursday night.
Close by, Penni Boudet had spent the week with neighbour Lucy Thompson evacuating horses and livestock to safer ground.
"We live on the southern side of the bay, so we are all fine. But we've been moving people's horses and animals, relocating them to other properties available. We've been working in a convoy getting horses out."Near Queanbeyan, conditions reached emergency warning levels as the North Black Range/Palerang fire took hold.
"The difference is that was a 36-hour fire [that raged], whereas this is now in day 10 and the situation has deteriorated with the warmer weather towards the end of the week." At three terminals in Port Botany, ship loading came to a halt when 100 Maritime Union of Australia members stopped work because of extended exposure to Sydney's poor air quality, the longest and most widespread on record.
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