Catastrophic fire conditions declared in central NSW, 25 schools closed

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For the first time in more than two years, catastrophic fire conditions have been declared in New South Wales. The area affected covers eight local government areas in the Central West and Riverina.

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00:00I'm at the southern end of the Lower Central West Slopes and Plains Fire District, which

00:06is facing catastrophic fire conditions today.

00:09As you can probably see in here around me, that wind is starting to pick up now and that

00:14is what the Rural Fire Service is most concerned about today.

00:18Here in Tamora, we've actually had some showers of rain this morning and some thunder rumble

00:22overhead and the RFS crews in the building behind me are monitoring the landscape for

00:27lightning strikes.

00:28There are 25 schools closed across the Central West and Riverina today because of the fire

00:34conditions and today's catastrophic conditions come at a time when we're in full swing of

00:39grain harvest here in the Riverina.

00:42A lot of farmers have spent the morning in the header, out in the paddock, trying to strip

00:46off as much grain as possible before the winds pick up this afternoon and those conditions

00:51really do deteriorate.

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