Holidaymakers urged to 'revisit' plans bushfires
It is believed a further 100 houses were razed when bushfires tore through NSW under dangerous conditions on Thursday and Saturday last week.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Sunday said “there’s not much left” in the small town of Balmoral, southwest of Sydney.An emergency alert was issued for the Comberton fire south of Nowra on Monday afternoon, although this was later downgraded.“It’s an enormous amount of the landscape and forested areas,” he told reporters in the Blue Mountains.
“The next few days are going to be very important to try and get in place and then hopefully it won’t be so much of a risk as we go into the next batch of warm weather, looking like Sunday-Monday into next week,” he said.Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday visited Mudgee after an aerial tour where he witnessed the “absolute incineration of such large tracts of land”.
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