NSW catches breath as fire conditions ease

There are still 130 fires burning across the state with 54 not contained, however all fires have been reduced to advice level, helped by favourable weather conditions.

The RFS expects hundreds more will be confirmed lost in coming days, as assessment teams who have been kept at bay by flames have been able to reach the hardest-hit towns. "We are comfortable for people to be in their homes at the moment," RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers told the ABC. The Bureau of Meteorology is expecting some showers to cooler conditions across fire grounds in the state's south.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has acknowledged NSW is in "unchartered territory" and can't pretend the fires are something experienced before."The weather activity we're seeing, the extent and spread of the fires, the speed at which they're going, the way in which they're attacking communities who've never ever seen fire before, is unprecedented," she said on Sunday.

I don't need to even turn on the sound to know that ScottyFomMarketing isn't actually saying anything here. More slogans, more climate denials, more self-pity and no empathy.

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