The NSW State Emergency Service received over 2,700 calls for help overnight, with the number of calls since last Wednesday topping 10,000, SES spokesman Andrew Richards said. It’s quite widespread,” NSW State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Andrew Richards said. Thanks to the rain, the NSW Rural Fire Service on Sunday night declared that one of the state’s worst bushfires, Currawon on the south coast, was finally out. The fire had burned for 74 days, destroying 312 homes and razing nearly 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of land. Farmers welcomed the rain but said the water was not going deep enough into the ground to end three years of drought.

Source: New Strait Times February 09, 2020 22:30 UTC