'Long way to go': Live coverage of the NSW, Queensland bushfires

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- 83 fires burning in NSW, 50 not contained - Emergency warning for the Liberation Trail blaze - A dozen homes damaged or destroyed yesterday - The wind change that caused havoc in NSW is now moving into QLD: More than 60 fires burning across the state.

Residents defend a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney on November 12, 2019. - A state of emergency was declared on November 11 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of "catastrophic" fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires that have ravaged the drought-stricken east of the country.

Today the focus also shifts to Queensland, where increasingly windy conditions and temperatures in the mid to high thirties will make firefighters’ job harder.There is one emergency warning, for the Liberation Trail blaze;At least a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed yesterday;More than 60 fires are burning across the state.

It’s threatening Yarracooma, Paddys Plain, Cradle Creek and Lowanna. Residents are being advised to leave now and head towards Dorrigo “before it is too late”. “They’re consuming an area of more than a million hectares,” NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said last night, referring to all the fires across the state.

 

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