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This photo taken on January 15, 2020 shows a burnt vehicle seen after a bushfire in Budgong area of New South Wales, Australia.Australia on Monday boosted emergency grants and loans for small businesses hit by bushfires that have ravaged the country during the peak tourist season, as firefighters used cooler weather to prepare for a return of hazardous fire conditions.

“The customers come back and the businesses rebuild and the local towns and communities rebuild with their support,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told television network Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd.The Australian tourism industry estimates the fires which have raged throughout the December-January holiday season have cost it almost A$1 billion.

Firefighters had taken advantage of the milder conditions to “slow the spread of fire and build containment lines ahead of increased fire dangers”, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said in a post on its Twitter account.Hot and windy conditions would likely return to many parts of NSW later in the week, it added.

 

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