It has burnt more than 50,000 hectares, but the Currowan fire still isn't done.
By Thursday, it had jumped the Princes Highway and loomed large with 20-metre-high flames over the tiny hamlets of Bawley Point and Kiola.
Properties had also been threatened at some of the seven out of control fires that reached emergency warning level across the state, including the Little L Complex fire at the Yengo National Park near Singleton and the North Black Range fire outside Queanbeyan. RFS volunteers at Oakdale, where the Green Wattle Creek fire was briefly bought under control on Thursday.The fire was briefly controlled on Thursday evening but was whipped back into a frenzy on Thursday evening as exhausted fire fighters waited on the southerly buster to blow through.
Laura Ante, who lives on Burragorang road at The Oaks six kilometres from the firefront, said she decided to leave early and went to her parents' home with her cat."The smoke was very thick. We saw about 12 fire trucks drive past us as we were packing up," she said.
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