Residents look on as flames engulf the trees at Lake Tabourie on the New South Wales south coast.
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Shelley Caban and her daughter Pearl, four, who have been living in a bus on the wharf at Eden with the rest of their family and animals since evacuating their home in Nethercote on New Year’s Eve.
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Eden residents prepare to take shelter aboard a tug boat at the town’s wharf. Photograph: Andrew Quilty/The Guardian
Lucy Sharman hoses down still-burning bushland beside a neighbour’s property on Moss Vale Road in Kangaroo Valley.
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Day turns to night on Yaouk Road, north of Adaminaby, near the Snowy Mountains.
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Ash from bushfires washes up on a beach in Merimbula.
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A southerly wind hits the rugby club at Nowra – the staging area for emergency services.
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Christmas decorations near a destroyed house in Cobargo.
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Fire damage outside Sarsfield in East Gippsland, Victoria.
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Jesse Collins, who organises donations at the evacuation centre in Cobargo, reacts while speaking about how hard it has been to get water.
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Burnt-out cars outside Sarsfield.
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Eden residents Karli and her son Dre leave a tugboat moored at the town’s wharf after deciding to evacuate north by road, with family and friends as a fire threatened.
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Embers and thick smoke from bushfires reach Braemar Bay.
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Yaouk Road as the fire front approaches.
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A burning gum tree is felled to stop it from falling on a car in Corbago.
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A Country Fire Authority crew from Dandenong work on mopping up a spot fire on the Great Alpine Road outside Sarsfield.
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Klaus Elber in his fire bunker at his property in Penrose, in the NSW southern highlands. He plans to stay with his property and defend it should the fire reach his place. He feels he is well prepared.
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Residents take a dip to cool down in Lake Jindabyne.za
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