Australia: fire alert near Sydney

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 16 - The Australian authorities have spread new warnings about a "mega fire" that has already exceeded the containment lines and burned 20 houses near Sydney. According to the BBC, adding that the flames were burning for about 400 thousand hectares and that they are advancing in the Blue Mountains, a well-known tourist area.
The fire brigades are already working on over 100focolai, while the temperatures that a new record could today also increase, adds the BBC.
Temperatures could exceed the 50.7 record set point in Oodnadatta, in southern Australia, in 1960, according to the country's meteorological office.
Since last September, six people have died in the arsonists, devastated the eastern states of New South Wales and Queensland. Over 700 homes destroyed.