05:26We are in Richmond where smoke is extraordinarily thick and the RFS’s 737 Large Air Tanker is doing laps overhead, bombing the fire just a few suburbs away. The Richmond club is acting as the evacuation centre. It’s expected to roar through in about 90 minutes *if* that southerly, which is already late, stays away. Kurrajong heights #nswfires pic.twitter.com/ZPwsMA6WeJA couple has arrived with seven cats, and another man came down from Mount Bowen on his bike, we’re told. Mary Lyons-Buckett is the deputy mayor of Hawkesbury, and tells us people are mainly coming from Bilpin, Mount Bowen – which was recently evacuated – and Kurrajong and Kurrajong Heights.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2019 21:33 UTC