The New South Wales Rural Fire Service worked tirelessly on Sunday to battle 85 fires.
By late on Sunday night the RFS confirmed only 46 had been contained, with 39 blazes still resisting efforts of emergency crews.
The Snowy Monaro region was particularly at risk with a “number of fires” near Shannon’s Flat and Bredbo continuing to burn as of 7:15pm on Sunday. A perfect combination of weather systems hit the state on Sunday with sweltering heat coupled with high winds in Sydney, the greater Hunter and the far south coast.Penrith has a forecast of 39C on Tuesday, with that heat handing on into Wednesday with a high of 35C. Penrith is expecting the first four days of October to all be above 30C.There will be widespread heat across NSW, stretching through the NT and into the Kimberley and northern WA.
Victoria was not exempt from damaging fires with evacuation alerts being declared out across Gippsland.
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