and with today said to be the most dangerous so far let's go straight to sydney and journalist roger maynard stare standing by for us good morning to you roger what more can you tell us well it's a very serious and fast moving situation now the authorities have listed a little new emergency fire warnings are in new south wales yourself was the courses were to people treat you with the weekend and there were nearly 200 homes destroyed in the flames now this afternoon or early this morning fire chiefs will the worst is still to come as fierce winds threaten to blow fires in multiple directions leaving. fighters almost powerless to control the rural fire service commissioner change that soon looms for cause the conditions would only deteriorate as the strong winds continued or became more consistent at least 3 properties have been destroyed in new south wales in the past few hours tare new south wales mid north coast that's north of sydney meanwhile a huge army of emergency personnel remain on standby with some 20000 firefighters police and soldiers as world ready to move in if necessary and th

authorities have to clear a 7 day state of emergency in the area i and we can speak to journalist roger maynard in sydney now hi roger bring us up to date what is the latest that's been happening. well they predicted that this would be a day of catastrophic conditions and judging by the pictures that are coming out of so many parts of the strait is eastern seaboard let's certainly confirms the view here he said the blazes broke out in the the northern suburbs barely a 20 minute drive from the city albert rich and the the fireman of the far posters were on to it immediately within minutes a hercules aircraft flew in and doused the entire area with pink slime pirate tarrant and does the flames almost immediately so that emergency was over and but but but the been many many other fires breaking out all over the area out further west than in the western suburbs of sydney the fires up in the blue mountains there been fires further north at tarin 3 homes were destroyed and in the wine growing area of $100.00 barely there were 3 fires there as well and the conditions have been getting worse all day. a