Rural Fire Service Commissioner Rob Rogers said the massive fire could take weeks to fully extinguish.
Residents in northern New South Wales have been warned to prepare over the next few weeks as firefighters continue to battle two huge blazes west of Kempsey.has torn through more than 22,000 hectares of the Willi Willi National Park and Boonanghi Nature Reserve and is currently burning at advice level.A bushfire has torn through more than 22,000 hectares of the Willi Willi National Park and Boonanghi Nature Reserve and is currently burning at advice level.
"Simply because of the terrain and the size of the fire so we've got a long way to go, it's a marathon it's not a sprint." Residents in northern New South Wales have been warned to prepare over the next few weeks as firefighters continue to battle two huge blazes west of Kempsey. "The priorities for the team at the moment is containing the fire to the east and the southern part of that fire," Rogers said.
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