Sydney is blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire season
A thick a blanket of smoke hangs over parts of the Sydney following New South Wales Rural Fire Service hazard reduction burns in the past week, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. The NSW Rural Fire Service and National Parks and Wildlife Service are burning over 600 hectares around Sydney before an expected hot weekend that will begin a run of high temperatures and increased fire risk.
Fire authorities have only carried out 14% of planned hazard reduction burns across New South Wales state as of this week and are attempting to catch up before what is forecast to be a hot and dry Southern Hemisphere summer. Rain had prevented burning last week and an increased fire danger due to rising temperatures and windy conditions was expected to prevent burning late next week.is expected to be the most destructive since the catastrophic Black Summer wildfires of 2019-20.
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