A NSW Rural Fire Service personnel conducts property protection as a bushfire burns in Woodford NSW, Australia, November 8, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts/via REUTERS.
A resident hoses smouldering logs as a bushfire burns in Woodford NSW, Australia, November 8, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts/via REUTERS.
A resident watches the progress of bushfires near houses in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia November 9, 2019. AAP Image/Shane Chalker/via REUTERS.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks to locals during a visit to Club Taree Evacuation Centre in Taree, New South Wales, Australia, November 10, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
A fire bombing helicopter works to contain a bushfire along Old Bar road in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia, November 9, 2019. AAP Image/Shane Chalker/via REUTERS.
An Air-crane water bombing helicopter drops water on a bushfire in Harrington, Australia, November 8, 2019. AAP Image/Shane Chalker/via REUTERS.
A NSW Rural Fire Service firefighter conducts property protection as a bushfire burns close to homes on Railway Parade in Woodford NSW, Australia, November 8, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts/via REUTERS.
Wytaliba resident Storm Sparks holds her son Zeke Bacon as she waits to get back to her house at a roadblock near Glen Innes, Australia, November 11, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Peled/via REUTERS.
A ferry passes in front of the Central Business District as smoke from bushfires shroud Sydney, Australia, November 11, 2019.
Smoke from bushfires shrouds the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, November 12, 2019.
A ferry passes under the Sydney Harbour Bridge as smoke from bushfires blankets the skyline of Sydney, Australia, November 12, 2019.
Residents try to knock down spot fires, from a bushfire, heading towards a house on a property at Koorainghat, near Taree in the Mid North Coast region of NSW, Australia, November 12, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks to locals during a visit to Club Taree Evacuation Centre in Taree, New South Wales, Australia, November 10, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
A fire bombing helicopter works to contain a bushfire along Old Bar road in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia November 9, 2019. AAP Image/Shane Chalker/via REUTERS.
A cluster of burnt out cars sit at a property at Rainbow Flat, Australia, November 11, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian receive briefing on the fires at Mid North Coast Fire Control Centre in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia, November 10, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
Smoke with orange tint blanketing skies and orange hues are seen from a kitchen window in Port Macquarie, Australia November 8, 2019, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Laura Begbie/via REUTERS.
Lyn and Peter Iverson with their burnt out office and shed on their property at Half Chain road, Koorainghat, Australia, November 11, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
A Gloucester fire crew member fights flames from a bushfire at Koorainghat, near Taree in the Mid North Coast region of NSW, Australia, November 12, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
Thomas Eveans holds melted aluminium as he inspects the remains of his house which was destroyed by a bushfire in Torrington, near Glen Innes, Australia, November 11, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Peled/via REUTERS.
A burnt koala named Anwen, rescued from Lake Innes Nature Reserve, receives formula at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital ICU in Port Macquarie, Australia November 7, 2019. Picture taken November 7, 2019.
Smoke fills the sky in Port Macquarie, Australia November 8, 2019 in this picture obtained from social media. MIREYA REYES/via REUTERS.
A firefighter on property protection watches the progress of bushfires in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia November 9, 2019. AAP Image/Shane Chalker/via REUTERS.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison comforts 85-year-old evacuee Owen Whalan of Half Chain road in Koorainghat during a visit to Club Taree Evacuation Centre in Taree, New South Wales, Australia, November 10, 2019. AAP Image/Darren Pateman/via REUTERS.
Smoke haze as a result of bushfires blankets central Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, November 9, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Peled/via REUTERS.
Sue Ashton, president of Koala Conservation Australia, looks at a koala mother named Julie and an unnamed koala joey in Port Macquarie, Australia November 7, 2019.
High-rise buildings are seen through smoke from bushfires during sunset in Sydney, Australia, November 11, 2019.
Australia braces for bushfires