Thousands of weary firefighters, who have been battling bushfires for a month, were fighting nearly 100 blazes in New South Wales. The mega-fire north of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, was created on Friday when several fires merged and was burning across 335,000 hectares. That’s really what is going to stop it,” the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said. New South Wales Health on Friday said that about 1,140 people had sought medical assistance for breathing issues or asthma in the past week — a quarter more than in a typical week. New South Wales Ambulance fielded about one-third more calls.
