UPDATED: Firefighters are battling 40 uncontained blazes as 59 bush and grassfires burn across NSW, causing the evacuation of homes and a western Sydney university campus.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has told parliament more than 500 firefighters and 200 appliances are responding and a number of emergency warnings are in place across the state, with four fires at a watch and act level.
The worst blazes are at Tickner Road in Castlereagh, where a 60-hectare grass fire is threatening homes, and a three-hectare fire at Bennett and Richmond Roads in Windsor.
Homes and nearby schools have been evacuated.
There are also fires at Marsden Park, Winmalee, Wollombi, and Leets Vale.
A slow-moving bushfire at Lane Cove has just been extinguished.
My sister is a teacher at a school at Londonderry and they evacuated at about 1:30/2 pm!
Scarey stuff!
Marsden park s a 10 min drive from my house and we have lots of smoke and some ash! Have friends there, are waiting to hear if they are safe.
Scarey stuff!
Marsden park s a 10 min drive from my house and we have lots of smoke and some ash! Have friends there, are waiting to hear if they are safe.
@*ibis wrote:
@lakeland27 wrote:its the future.
wow you heard it here first folks. australia is going to have bush fires(like its never happened before)
let me quess, it will be abbotts fault
no its not Abbotts fault. the fault lies probably more with the flat earth simpletons who embraced denial against all the evidence, i think you know who. copped a kudos i see 
