Conditions are tipped to be better today but there are still 200 fires burning across Australia. Seven people have been killed and more than 900 homes lost in this year’s bushfire season.
An emotional Rural Fire Service volunteer has broken down live on radio, saying he is "offended" at the suggestion that fireys "failed" to save the NSW town of Balmoral.
"I can only speak for me, I'd rather not speak for my crewmates, but the suggestion by the Premier and the media … Balmoral has not been wiped off the map. It is not almost gone. It is all still there.
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