Rural areas of Australia’s New South Wales state have been evacuated as wildfires rage across the state, threatening homes and closing roads. This is as bad as it gets in these circumstances." "These are unprecedented conditions not only in NSW but Australia, and worse than the forecast for Black Saturday in Victoria," said NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons at a briefing today.
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service issues an emergency warning for a bush fire located to the east of Dunedoo in New South Wales, Australia. The warning comes amidst "unprecedented" fire conditions across the region, deemed to be worse than the conditions precipitating the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria.