MORNING BRIEFING: Tributes continue to pour in overnight for the three US firefighters who died after their Large Air Tanker crashed in southern NSW, and poor air quality forecast for Sydney
It comes after extensive dust storms across parts of the state yesterday that impacted parts of Sydney. Rebecca Kamitakahara from the Bureau of Meteorology said bushfire smoke is contributing to the poor air quality.
"We had a southerly move through Sydney overnight and the Central Coast area and what that did is bring some of that smoke haze back from those fires in southern New South Wales," she said.The NSW Government and the state's rural fire chief will meet US and Canadian firefighters this morning before the international crews travel home. North American firefighters and specialists arrived in Australia in early December as part of an international effort to combat the country's bushfire crisis. RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and Emergency Services Minister David Elliott will meet crews at their Wolli Creek hotel before their departure. Many of the country's visitors had missed Christmas and New Year with their families to aid firefighting efforts here.A man has been charged for allegedly filming a woman in an office building shower cubicle in the Sydney CBD. NSW Police said a 45-year-old woman was using a shower cubicle at an office building in Pyrmont on Wednesday when she noticed a mobile phone over the top.Officers arrested a 25-year-old man in Glebe yesterday.Cloudy. Areas of dust haze in the early morning. Medium chance and thunderstorms.
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