Don't get complacent over bushfire danger, warns fire chief

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated December 26 2014 - 8:13am, first published December 25 2014 - 12:53pm
A NSW RFS firefighter feels for rain as forecast storms move into the Blue Mountains last year during back-burning. Photo: Wolter Peeters
A NSW RFS firefighter feels for rain as forecast storms move into the Blue Mountains last year during back-burning. Photo: Wolter Peeters
A NSW RFS crew from Kurrajong Brigade works to extinguish a fire that flared around the State Mine fire near Berambing. Photo: Wolter Peeters
A NSW RFS crew from Kurrajong Brigade works to extinguish a fire that flared around the State Mine fire near Berambing. Photo: Wolter Peeters
NSW RFS crews struggle to save a home near Dargan on the Bells Line of Road during the Blue Mountains bush fires in 2013. Photo: Wolter Peeters
NSW RFS crews struggle to save a home near Dargan on the Bells Line of Road during the Blue Mountains bush fires in 2013. Photo: Wolter Peeters

The NSW Rural Fire Service has reached only 70 per cent of its December back-burning target because of poor weather.

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