A Currowan Fire Update / December 29th 2019

The Currowan Fire has merged with another to the north and spawned another to the west.
Total area to date over 250,000ha or 620,000 acres.
The forecast for the coming days is not good.
Temperatures are set to rise above 40 degrees in western Sydney and other parts of the state and north westerly winds are to pick up in coming days.
The Rural Fire Service has forecast "severe and extreme fire danger coming into Tuesday".
There was concern about the progress of fires in southern NSW on Sunday and our Shoalhaven area on Monday and Tuesday.

Emergency services have issued a strong message to tourists planning to visit the Shoalhaven in the lead up to New Year, urging them to reconsider all travel plans due to "deteriorating" bushfire conditions.
Our council said the significantly increased population due to visitors was already "adding to the burden on emergency services and responders".
The major highway from Sydney is being cut continually by fire activity.
The major highway from Canberra has been cut for 3 weeks and due to fire damage is unlikely to be open in less than a month.
This is turning into a disaster for tourism in our area. Many businesses rely on the income generated during the long Christmas/New Year holidays to sustain them during the rest of the year.
There were more than 80 blazes across the state on Saturday evening as a "very high" fire danger warning was in place for much of the east coast. Unfortunately some fires have been deliberately lit and arrests are being made.
There is no rain forecast for the next 10 days.
We are seemingly safe. Nothing much left to burn around here but we have been warned that secondary fires are a possibility and to be alert.