BREAKING: A fresh bushfire emergency is unfolding across NSW with seven blazes burning a EMERGENCY level. 9News
John Bushnell was ready with buckets to extinguish spot fires on his property.Meanwhile, a fire in the Wollemi National Park north west of Sydney which has been burning for weeks, is threatening the rural Colo Heights area on the Hawkesbury.
More than 20 firefighters from Canada have landed in Australia to help battle the ongoing bushfire crisis.Meanwhile, the "longest period" of air pollution on record for NSW is set to continue with severe bushfire conditions across large areas of the state. In Sydney, heavy smoke has been blowing into the city from the fire near Warragamba Dam, the NSW Rural Fire Service says."An overnight temperature inversion will trap the smoke in the Sydney basin. This means smoke will settle in many areas and be very heavy," the RFS said in a statement.
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