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"Extreme weather conditions are lingering across parts of Australia as crews
fight to contain bushfires in multiple states.
Across New South Wales, more than 75 fires were burning on Saturday afternoon,
with 19 yet to be contained. At least a dozen homes were destroyed by a fire
burning at Koolewong on the Central Coast, with an emergency warning issued by
the Rural Fire Service in place as of 5pm on Saturday.
The Koolewong fire was burning quickly and had spotted into the Woy Woy bay
area, the RFS said.
“We’ve got reports of more than 12 houses lost unfortunately,” said Leigh
Pilkington, an RFS assistant commissioner, on the
ABC. “We’ve got more than
250 firefighters, more than 50 fire trucks and other appliances, nine aviation
assets, aircraft and doing what we can to keep this under control.
A second emergency warning was issued on Saturday afternoon for a fire at
Milsons Gully in the upper Hunter region, with more than 9,000 hectares burned.
Another bushfire in the Goulburn River national park in the Merriwa River
valley area had burned 8,600 hectares but the RFS said on Saturday afternoon it
was under control.
Several more properties were thought to have burned at Bulahdelah, north of
Newcastle, although fire assessors were yet to survey the full extent of the
damage.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said in a statement he was “thinking of
all those across NSW impacted by today’s bushfires”.
“Please look out for each other and follow advice from authorities. Thank you
to all our emergency services and volunteers on the ground and in the air.”
Dangerous fire conditions were expected to continue across parts of eastern
Australia as forecast dry lightning risked new blazes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
