So much of NSW is now alight that smoke from the bushfires is impacting communities across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand, the NSWRFS says.
There are eight fires at emergency warning level, including the huge 250,000-hectare bushfire at Gospers Mountain northwest of Sydney which has joined up with the neighbouring Little L Complex and Paddock Run blazes.
Properties may have been lost and damaged on Thursday - particularly at Bawley Point north of Batemans Bay - but exact figures won't be known until assessment teams can safely enter the burned-out areas. "Our thoughts are with the people who have been displaced and people who are living in fear ... and we have to acknowledge many people throughout the state are," the Liberal leader said.. A team from the United States will arrive on Saturday.
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