Thanks, maeve.

I've just been talking to Bob Bolton & a number of his friends in the mountains are affected. Fires are very close to their properties & one house has been waterbombed.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) says 193 homes have been destroyed and 109 damaged in the fierce bushfires that have affected the state's Blue Mountains since Thursday.
Firefighters have been making the most of cooler weather overnight to work on containment lines around six major bushfires in New South Wales before conditions worsen in the coming days.

lucky cat