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Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, NSW RFS deputy commissioner Peter McAfee also provided an update on the bushfires in the Hunter region.
He said it reached emergency warning level yesterday at Kearsley, but they have confirmed there was no property loss. It is now back to advice level.
So some really great saves by firefighters in really challenging conditions.
We still have some high fire danger days right across northern NSW with with extreme up in the northwest, so it’s not over this period of fire activity, but some good news to see that change moving through the southern part of the state.
It really was a serious incident there right into the evening, with crews protecting properties throughout.
We’ll have our teams in there at daylight this morning. They’re already getting in there, just looking at exactly what’s occurred. It’s [was] too dangerous to do all that work overnight.
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