"Despite cooler conditions across the firegrounds a mountain of work remains for firefighters in north eastern NSW. On three fires alone there is more than 1080km of fire edge that needs to be contained, mopped up and blacked out.

"This distance is equivalent of driving from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast. This dirty and often dangerous work includes extinguishing trees on fire, or candles as firefighters know them, so when strong winds return fires don't spread past these containment lines and impact on people and properties."

In the video below of the Bees Nest Fire shot by Toby Lucas from the NSW RFS Red Hill brigade, you can hear the firefighters chuckling in awe at the strangely beautiful sight of a fiery tree shedding embers right in front of them.

Advice - Bees Nest fire (Armidale LGA)

Posted:20/09/2019 08:55

A bush fire is burning north of Ebor and to the north west of Dorrigo. The fire is currently more than 94,900 hectares and is being controlled.

Current Situation

The fire continues to burn on multiple fronts within the Guy Fawkes National Park, the Mount Hyland Nature Reserve and Nymboi Binderay National Park.

Firefighters will continue to conduct backburns as conditions allow. A large area on the northern side of the fireground within the Guy Fawkes River National Park will be burnt over the coming days.

People in the area will notice an increase of smoke and fire activity as these burns are undertaken.

Advice

If you are in the areas of Billys Creek, Tyringham, Marengo, Moonpar, Dundarrabin or Bostobrick, you should continue to monitor to situation.

Trees damaged by fire may continue to impact a number of local roads. Follow the directions of firefighters.

Recovery

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