Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says conditions are deteriorating across the state, with dry north-westerly winds forecast to return.
More than 37,000 hectares have now been burnt as 60 fires continue to burn across the state, 15 of them uncontained, and there is an active fire edge more than 300 kilometres long.
RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says new information from the Bureau of Meteorology this morning has firmed up concerns about the next few days.
"We are likely to see...