With the bushfire crisis reaching unprecedented levels, grey nomads are urged to be on high alert and to exercise extreme caution.
In New South Wales, the ABC reports that the Rural Fire Service is warning that tomorrow’s fire danger is expected to be worse than originally forecast. Having already said catastrophic conditions were expected in Greater Sydney and the Greater Hunter, another 400,000 people across the Illawarra and Shoalhaven areas now being warned to prepare for the worst
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has declared a state of emergency, warning people ‘for heaven’s sake, stay away from bushland tomorrow’.
Police Minister David Elliot has said this could be ‘the most dangerous bushfire week this nation has ever seen’.
The ABC reports that a million hectares have now been razed across New South Wales since the start of this year’s unprecedented bushfire season. Three people were killed and at least 150 homes destroyed on the state’s mid-north coast and northwest where bushfires ravaged regional towns at the weekend.
The situation is also bleak in Queensland with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting very high and severe fire dangers for the southeast, Darling Downs, Granite Belt and Wide Bay.
There will be a constant fire danger over the next week, with Wednesday expected to be a ‘very serious day’.
