New South Wales is counting the cost after a long night for the state's firefighters.
"Our hearts, thoughts and minds go to the families during this very difficult time," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at this morning's news conference with the Rural Fire Service.AAPMs Berejiklian also confirmed that early indications show there has been extensive property damage but no concern for missing persons."Indications at this stage there aren't any unaccounted people in New South Wales, and that is the best news we could hope for this morning".
"We have just under 150 fires still burning, two of them at emergency warning alert level and another nine at the watch and act alert," he said just after 8am Sunday. There are reports of property damage and destruction in the Southern Highlands towns of Wingello and Bundanoon after the Morton fire jumped the Shoalhaven River on Saturday evening.
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