Exhausted firefighters are bracing for extreme fire danger in Queensland's Darling Downs and another day of Very High to Severe danger in parts of NSW. 9News
Fire danger ratings today are severe in four northern NSW regions and very high in the Greater Sydney, Greater Hunter, Central Ranges and North Coast regions. "We need to recognise that those are still bad days.
We don't need it to be at the catastrophic range for it to be considered a bad day," NSW RFS Inspector Ben Shepherd told reporters yesterday. "We've lost more homes in the last few weeks in that very high to severe range than we did on the real bad blow-up days."More than 100 homes have been damaged while 785 sheds and other outbuildings have been damaged or destroyed.At least one home was destroyed yesterday morning by the massive Gospers Mountain blaze on Sydney's northwestern outskirts. That fire has already burned through 120,000 hectares - a footprint larger than Canberra - and remains out of control. Smoke from nearby fires left Port Macquarie residents enduring an air quality worse than New Delhi and Beijing with the index reaching 1848 yesterday morning. By yesterday afternoon, it had improved to 236 - a rating still above the threshold for hazardous air quality. Total fire bans will be in place for five NSW regions on Sunday - the Greater Hunter, Far North Coast, New England, Northern Slopes and North Western.
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