SYDNEY: Sydney experienced its first total fire ban in almost three years on Tuesday and several schools along New South Wales's coast to the south were closed because of a heightened wildfire danger, caused by unusually hot and dry conditions across southeastern Australia.
Authorities have forecast the most destructive wildfire season during the approaching Southern Hemisphere summer in Australia's populous southeast since the catastrophic Black Summer fires of 2019–2020 that killed 33 people, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed 19 million hectares of land.A total fire ban has been declared for the Greater Sydney area and the coastal communities to the south.
Authorities declared a 'catastrophic' fire danger along the south coast of New South Wales, the highest level of danger in a five-tier rating system.'The problem is when we get into fires in 'catastrophic' fire danger rating, there's not much time for us to get on top of those fires and contain them and once they take hold we won't be able to put those fires out,' Rural Fire Service Commissioner Rob Rogers said.
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