Joy, I heard on last night's news that all national parks would be closed today - a sensible idea in conditions like we are having.

We're in north-western NSW so, while it's still quite hot, we aren't having the catastrophic conditions folks further south are getting. We're on the edge of town with a hill behind us, cleared land over our fence leading up to trees further away. We're in a very high fire danger area rather than catastrophic......not much difference, but enough.

Fingers crossed for Oz!
JennieG