Firefighting crews in the Blue Mountains area had been attempting to protect communities around the Bells Line of Road NSWFires bushfires
With 110 fires burning in NSW the RFS is quite concerned about conditions from Wednesday onwards, Mr Rogers said.
"There's going to be a lot of work going on over the next 24 hours to try and just see what we can do to protect as many properties as we can, but people should be under no illusions - we're not going to get this fire put out - and we're going to have to get through this next week of really hot weather with these fires being very active," he told the ABC.
Total fire bans are in place for Monday for the far North Coast, central ranges, New England, northern slopes and northwestern fire regions, with the latter four under severe fire danger. Some 724 homes, 49 facilities and 1582 outbuildings had been destroyed so far this fire season. Six people have died and 2.7 million hectares have been scorched.
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