00:00As a bushfire raged in the Bulladila region, residents say a planned power outage put a pause on their emergency response.
00:10The Premier has described the maintenance work by Essential Energy as a tough judgement call.
00:16I think in retrospect if they had their time again they wouldn't have gone ahead with it.
00:19Four homes were lost in the fire and with no power, locals missed messages about the dangerous conditions.
00:26I probably would have left earlier if we had power.
00:29It's still going to require Essential Energy working with RFS and Fire and Rescue about when is the right time to go ahead with this maintenance and there's not a one-size-fits-all situation.
00:41And the extent of the damage from a bushfire near Lithgow yesterday is still unknown.
00:46Moved from 100 hectares to 500 hectares in a very short period of time.
00:51At Kuliwong on the central coast, investigators are still trying to find the cause of a blaze which destroyed 16 homes and damaged 23 others.
01:01There is no evidence at this stage to suggest that there's any deliberate act there.
01:05So this is, I hope, a bit of comfort for the community to know that.
01:09As more than 40 fires continue to burn across New South Wales, there's some relief in sight.
01:14Weather modelling is predicting on average 20 to 50 millimetres of rain across firegrounds from the central west, the mid-north coast and Hunter Valley.
01:24Hopes the wetter climate will reduce the threat of fires like these.
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