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Australia fires: Sydney warned 'worst is yet to come' as smoke shrouds city – Sky News, Sky.com

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Australia fires: Sydney warned 'worst is yet to come' as smoke shrouds city – Sky News, Sky.com


             

Firefighters tackling dozens of huge wild fires in Australia which have shrouded Sydney in hazardous smoke have warned there could be worse to come.

The most recent blaze north ofSydney, burning across 844, acres after several fires merged, could take weeks to put out, authorities said.

  

A firefighter conducts back burning measures to secure residential areas from encroaching bushfires at the Mangrove area in Central Coast, some 90-110 kilometres north of Sydney on 7 December 2019A firefighter conducts back burning measures to secure residential areas from encroaching bushfires at the Mangrove area in Central Coast, some 90-110 kilometres north of Sydney on 7 December 2019A firefighter conducts back burning measures to secure residential areas from encroaching bushfires at the Mangrove area in Central Coast, some 90-110 kilometres north of Sydney on 7 December 2019      

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        Thousands of firefighters are tackling the blazes
      

 

  

A firefighter conducts back burning measures to secure residential areas from encroaching bushfires at the Mangrove area in Central Coast, some 90-110 kilometres north of Sydney on 7 December 2019      

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        The sun sets behind St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney
        The sun sets behind St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on 6 December 2019. Most of NSW remains under severe or very high fire danger warnings as more than 50 fires continue to burn across the state    

        

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A NSW Rural Fire Service emergency warning was issued on Saturday afternoon local time for the fast-moving bushfire, with residents in the Voyager Point, Pleasure Point and Sandy Point areas being told to leave, Sky News Australia reports.

Temperatures are forecast to rise to (C) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (F) and above in the coming days and no heavy rain is expected until late January.

Outdoor events this weekend have been cancelled and there has been a rise in respiratory illnesses as smoke and ash linger over the city, with strong winds fanning flames towards several suburbs.

” People are nervous and they have a right to be, ” Phil Koperberg, founder of the Rural Fire Service, is quoted as saying in The Sydney Herald Morning.

He warned that with the forecast predicting more dry conditions and more heat, “the worst is yet to come

Thousands of firefighters are tackling nearly bush fires across the state of New South Wales.

At least six people have died and more than 725 homes have been destroyed by the fires across eastern Australia, authorities have said.

  

      

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        People are wearing face masks to protect themselves from the smoke      

 

  

      

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        Beaches in Sydney have also been shrouded in the glow from the fires      

The fires around Sydney have been pumping such vast amounts of smoke into the air that they appear as significant rain on radars, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Twitter.

While common in Australia during the hot summer, which begins in December, the fires have started much earlier this season, blamed on soaring temperatures, dry winds and suspected arson.

“These will take many weeks to put out – and only when we get good rain, “the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said in a statement on Friday.

  

People are wearing face masks to protect from smoke haze in Sydney, Australia on 5 December

      

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        Fires are raging in the Mangrove area in Central Coast, around miles north of Sydney      

 

  

A family on a beach in Sydney on 4 December as smoke haze continues to hang over the city with more than 50 bushfires burning across New South Wales

      

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        Temperatures are forecast to rise to (C) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (F) in the coming days      

Some 1, People have sought medical assistance for breathing issues or asthma in the past week – a quarter more than in a typical week – New South Wales Health said.

While the heat and wind near Sydney eased slightly on Saturday, RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons told Australia’s Sky News that it was going to be “another tough day for everybody involved”.

    The sun sets behind St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on 6 December 2019. Most of NSW remains under severe or very high fire danger warnings as more than 50 fires continue to burn across the state(************************************ Read More (**************************************

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