Prime Minister Scott Morrison has paid tribute to NSW firefighters as crews try to contain dozens of bushfires across the state before temperatures soar later this week.
Firefighters had another tough day on Saturday battling blazes including the massive Gospers Mountain mega fire near Sydney's northwestern outskirts, which has merged with neighbouring fires.
Conditions eased on Sunday, allowing firefighters a chance to do critical back-burning and containment work ahead of Tuesday, when the mercury is tipped to soar into the 40s in parts of the state. Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited the NSW RFS in Wilberforce on Sunday"to say thanks for everything they’re doing.""We've got much more benign conditions, particularly a dominant easterly influence which will stretch pretty much right across most of our fire grounds," NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons told Seven News on Sunday.
"Which means hundreds - as a matter of fact more than 1600 - firefighters are around again today doing really important and critical back burning and containment-line consolidation to try and gain the upper hand before we see those conditions deteriorate into Tuesday." There is Very High fire danger forecast for a number of areas in NSW today. Fire dangers are set to increase tomorrow with hot, dry and windy conditions forecast. Take this time now to discuss your bush fire survival plan and know what you will do if fire threatens.
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