NSW fires: For the first time this season, all bush and grass fires contained After months of tireless firefighting, the Rural Fire Service has advised that, for the first time this season, all fires burning in New South Wales have been declared contained.
Efforts were assisted by drenching rains over the past few days, with Sydney enduring its wettest four days since 1990.
The RFS says the rain helped firefighters extinguish more than 30 fires, some of which had been burning for months.
They include the Gospers Mountain megablaze northwest of Sydney, the large Green Wattle Creek fire southwest of Sydney and the Currowan blaze which ravaged the south (read on)