A man is dead and hundreds of properties are feared lost after the latest day of "awful" bushfires swept through NSW in extreme and dangerous conditions
A man is dead and hundreds of properties are feared lost after the latest day of "awful" bushfires swept through NSW in extreme and dangerous conditions
5 January 2020
The 47-year-old man died of a cardiac arrest last night while defending a friend's rural property near Batlow, southwest of Canberra.
There were just under 150 bushfires burning in NSW this morning, with emergency warnings issued for blazes in the southern highlands and on the south coast near the NSW-Victoria border.
Early reports indicated hundreds of properties had been damaged or destroyed after bushfires tore through NSW yesterday.
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