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Speaker 2: Six one thirty seven degrees today and we have got

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Speaker 2: these hot northerlies coming in with an even gustier change

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Speaker 2: at around about six o'clock tonight. One man who was

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Speaker 2: working very very hard at the moment is Ben Sheppard,

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Rural File Service inspector, and he joins

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Speaker 2: us Now, Ben, we're looking outside now there's not a

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Speaker 2: drop of wind at all, a break of wind at all.

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Speaker 2: When do these winds hit us today? Ben?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Look that's the concerning thing. We have got this smoke

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Speaker 3: that has settled over most of Sydney and that's been

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Speaker 3: trapped by an inversion now what we're going to see

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Speaker 3: over the next couple of hours as the day warms up,

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Speaker 3: that inversion will break and these winds will mix down

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Speaker 3: very quickly, so we'll start to see that fire danger

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Speaker 3: build across the morning, and then the risk is probably

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Speaker 3: around about two o'clock we'll start to see that that

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Speaker 3: catastrophic fire day and just start to affect parts of Sydney.

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Speaker 3: So it is going to be a long day. And then,

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Speaker 3: as you just mentioned that wind change, if we've got

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Speaker 3: fires in the landscape, when that wind change hits, that

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Speaker 3: will tend to push fires in it in a brand

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Speaker 3: new direction. So it is going to be a potentially

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Speaker 3: dangerous day. We want people just to discuss this morning

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Speaker 3: what they're going to do, so they're not making decisions

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Speaker 3: once or if we have fires trying to make decisions

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Speaker 3: then as it might be bearing down on them.

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Speaker 4: Benny, in this situation, we're being told to prepare for

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Speaker 4: the worst. I mean, there's a nervous energy around today,

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Speaker 4: without a doubt in terms of areas where you may

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Speaker 4: have to leave your home, Where do you stand by,

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Speaker 4: where do you listen for, who's going to make the

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Speaker 4: alert of when you have to get out, how does

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Speaker 4: that play out look?

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Speaker 3: Ideally today, what we want people to do, especially if

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Speaker 3: you're in sort of areas where there's one road in,

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Speaker 3: one road out and you deep in the bush. Ideally

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Speaker 3: we want you to consider leaving this morning, so not

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Speaker 3: being in those worst parts, because if a fire does start,

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Speaker 3: it's going to escalate very very quickly. I'm hoping that

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Speaker 3: tomorrow we basically turn around and go, thank goodness we

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Speaker 3: didn't get a fire today, because if one does take hold,

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Speaker 3: we may not be able to get fire trucks to you,

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Speaker 3: We may not be able to get water bombers to you.

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Speaker 3: You need to consider your own safety. And I just

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Speaker 3: want to note as well, after this change there is

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Speaker 3: no rain, so that we are potentially in this little

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Speaker 3: bit of a pattern now are potentially for a number

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Speaker 3: of days or a week or two until such time

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Speaker 3: that we have substantial rain. We're going to have an

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Speaker 3: increased risk across New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: So then the call change they're saying at six o'clock,

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Speaker 2: then that's not going to help.

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Speaker 1: At all, is it?

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Speaker 3: No? No? And what we actually get so, for instance,

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Speaker 3: there is a fire currently burning on up in the

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Speaker 3: back of the so up in the back of the Hawksbury,

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Speaker 3: the Gospar's Mountain fire. We are going to see that escalate,

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Speaker 3: So people in Norton City are going to be able

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Speaker 3: to see that smoke plume as it starts to build

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Speaker 3: across the course of the day. What happens when the

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Speaker 3: change hits it. So let's say we've got two kilometers

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Speaker 3: or three kilometers of fire edge, as the suddenly hits it,

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Speaker 3: we then get two or three kilometers of fire front

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Speaker 3: and there is no actual respite as far as rain.

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Speaker 3: So it is going to be concerning as well if

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Speaker 3: we've got other fires in the landscape when that change it.

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Speaker 2: How far we're talking twenty thousand firefighters spence, how far

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Speaker 2: are people traveling to help fight the fires today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so basically we've had a number of crews coming

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Speaker 3: now from Queensland and also Victoria, so that those twenty thousand,

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Speaker 3: though the people talking about, they're really going to be

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Speaker 3: on stations and in on fire grounds or so three

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Speaker 3: thousand at least on fire grounds currently. But we are

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Speaker 3: looking at bad fighted age are really stretching from Beaga

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Speaker 3: to Byron. It is from border to border, so it

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Speaker 3: is going to be an incredibly difficult day, and that's

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Speaker 3: why we need people to understand that, you know, you

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Speaker 3: may not get that fire truck today, don't expect a

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Speaker 3: fire truck and that's why we need people to have

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Speaker 3: that understanding that about what they're going to do. There's

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Speaker 3: still time this morning as well to do some preparation.

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Speaker 3: Please clean out your gutters, Please actually mule around the house.

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Speaker 3: And importantly go and have a chat with your neighbor.

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Speaker 3: Go and see what their plan is for today. Good

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Speaker 3: idea and actually have a chat. I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of people. Also kids are home from school because a

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Speaker 3: lot of schools have been closed. Make sure we're helping

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Speaker 3: each other and make sure we know what we're going

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Speaker 3: to do. If a five starts.

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Speaker 4: Benny close to home. Also, the Blue Mountains, what sort

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Speaker 4: of position are they in?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, obviously that that is the concerning area or

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Speaker 3: one of the just the one of the concerning areas

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Speaker 3: of Sydney that they're probably going to see the highest

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Speaker 3: wind gusts probably possible up to about eighty five comes

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Speaker 3: an hour. Obviously that the humidity, the temperature and the

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Speaker 3: wind speed all play a part of that. But we're

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Speaker 3: looking at humidities basically beneath ten percent in some places

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Speaker 3: even lower than five percent. The year is incredibly dry.

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Speaker 3: But look at they're one of the key areas that

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Speaker 3: obviously people need to consider what movements they're doing today

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Speaker 3: about where then they need to be. So as I said,

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Speaker 3: it's just moving into those more urban built up areas

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Speaker 3: for the worst part. So go to the shopping center,

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Speaker 3: go to the movies if you want, just don't be

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Speaker 3: in those worst parts during the worst parts of the day.

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Speaker 1: And you guys have also got a mobile warning app.

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Should people be downloading that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look at near me basically the new SOUTHLD FIZ

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Speaker 3: near me app basically will keep you up to date

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Speaker 3: with fires as well as they happen. But we want

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Speaker 3: to stress as well, don't rely necessarily on a warning today.

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Speaker 3: Files will start and escalate very very quickly, So it's

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Speaker 3: important things like you guys as well, we know that

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Speaker 3: if we need to, warnings can be issued on the radio,

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Speaker 3: and the radio is a really good instant source of

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Speaker 3: information as well. So have near me, have the radio one,

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Speaker 3: have the TV on And importantly, if you see a

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Speaker 3: fire you need to make a decision.

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Speaker 2: Then don't really wait for a warning, busy day for you, Benny,

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Speaker 2: but we appreciate your time. Thank you very much and

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Speaker 2: good luck today mate.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you, Benny,