Wildfires in Australia
On Tuesday afternoon around 800 fire firefighters were battling 100 bushfires across NSW, 25 of them uncontained, with more than 500,000 hectares of the state now burnt in 11 days.
The worst of the fires, at the Warrumbungle National Park near Coonabarabran in the state's northwest, has so far burnt through 40,000 hectares, destroyed at least 40 properties, and remains out of control, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) advises.
Around 155 firefighters from greater Sydney, the Hunter region and other parts of the north coast arrived on the scene on Tuesday so they could rotate crews to manage fatigue, with some firefighters working 36-hour shifts.
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