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It’s been a tough day after an even tougher week for firefighters battling 79 fires burning across New South Wales. NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says getting the 29 fires currently uncontained under control will take days and in some cases, weeks. With 200 properties now destroyed, the effort is on to keep supplies, and spirits, up, as Chris Brunner reports.

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