FIREYS BUSY WITH NSW FIRES
NOVEMBER 19 -- LAKE COWAL, NSW: A bushfire emergency has been declared in the Bathurst and Forbes districts of New South Wales, where Rural Fire Service (RFS) firefighters are working to contain two large fires. A fire that started yesterday north of Lake Cowal has burned almost 5,500 acres of grazing country.
"I have never seen such a spectacular burn of lignum burning in all my life," said local landholder Geoff Buttonshaw. "It was just so ferocious."
ABC News reported that another fire south of O'Connell is at about 500 acres and has burned onto a private pine plantation.
RFS Incident Controller Randall Ferrington said weather is their biggest worry.