NSW environment department says air quality on Tuesday morning ‘extremely poor’ in Sydney’s east
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Sydney has awoken to a thick haze of smoke over the CBD and the eastern suburbs and another day of poor air quality as fire hazard-reduction burns continue.
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is racing to complete the burn-offs in the north, west and south ahead of the weekend when temperatures are set to rise to the low 30s.
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