Fire prone areas of northern NSW face total fire ban

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Hot and windy conditions have prompted a total fire ban across large parts of northern NSW where dozens of homes have already been destroyed in fires.

The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a maximum of 33C in Bellingen on Thursday, with 31C in Ballina and Moree Plains, 30C in Gunnedah, 29C in Cessnock and 28C in Tenterfield.

The warm weather comes after the RFS on Wednesday confirmed 64 homes were razed in bushfires that swept through northern NSW last week, with more than 150 outbuildings also destroyed. The Busbys Flat and Drake fires are still burning and currently at advice level, one week after blazes swept through the area south of Casino.AAP

The RFS said 44 homes were destroyed by the Busbys Flat blaze and 19 in the Drake fire, which claimed the lives of Bob Lindsay, 77, and his wife Gwen Hyde, 68.RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said there had been more than 5000 bush and grass fires across NSW this season, with a million hectares of land burnt out.

 

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