Major wildfires has been sweeping across parts of the state of New South Wales in Australia for over a week.
A total fire ban was issued in the Greater Sydney and three other regions across the state until further notice. On the morning of 21 October 2013, an emergency warning was announced for the Blue Mountains village of Bell. Residents were urged to
State officials said fire crews have carried out controlled burn operations through the night to strengthen the buffer zones around the major Blue Mountains fires.
Though there was an improvement in the weather on 18 October 2013, fire crews ramped up containment efforts around several of the blazes with the weather forecast including warmer temperatures and wind gusts of about 100 kilometre per hour (60 mile
The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney was the worst hit region, with smoke and ash filling the sky and plunging the city into darkness.
Earlier this week, an unreasonable warm weather caused wildfires to break out out across the state of New South Wales in which more than 200 homes were destroyed and another 120 damaged.
Australian fire services reported this to be the worst case of bushfire in the last 40 years. The fire is said to be a result of a warm and dry weather accompanied by strong winds.