The rain has been a welcome relief for firefighters across the state's fire grounds, but the NSW Rural Fire Service has warned the fire risk may return
The rain has been a welcome relief for firefighters across the state's fire grounds, but the NSW Rural Fire Service has warned the fire risk may return.
He said temperatures across the north of the state would climb to 40 degrees on Wednesday, before Sydney and the Hunter regions and the south of the state sweated through similar temperatures on Thursday.There are 77 fires burning across NSW with more than 30 yet to be contained, RFS statistics show.
One of the greatest challenges the RFS faces is collecting weather data in remote areas between the bureau's weather stations. To counter this, the service uses portable automatic weather stations, known as Paws.
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