Everyone knows the bushfires have been huge but one map has vividly shown the devastation with blazes having burned through an area half the size of Tasmania.
A map has graphically demonstrated the extent of the fires. Uploaded to social media by NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, the map is singed grey illustrating where land has been burned or is still ablaze.
A second large area of bushfires has burned through a swath of land to the north west of Sydney in the Wollemi and Yengo national parks between Gosford, Lithgow and Mudgee.These fires, and other large blazes to the south of Blue Mountains, have been chiefly responsible for the choking skies and terrible air quality afflicting Sydney.
“Of this the current 87 fires, incorporate 2.1 million hectares and a perimeter of 11,095 kms,” he wrote on Twitter.Around 3000 firefighters are tacking conflagrations across the state.Today, Sydney residents were warned to brace for “unprecedented losses” as the bushfires on the city’s doorstep look set to breach its suburbs later this summer, an ex-fire chief warned.
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