Residents are counting the cost after fire ravaged parts of northern New South Wales, with dry conditions ensuring the danger is not over just yet.
The blaze at Busbys Flat, south of Casino, was one of two that were still at emergency warning levels on Tuesday night.
The NSW Rural Fire Service said a number of homes in the village of Rappville, with a population of around 250 people, were destroyed when the fire ripped through the town.
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"I've lost the bloody sheds, the house, lost everything," Rappville resident Danny Smith told reporters on the scene.
"We might have saved the second place but everything else has gone."
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Also losing his home in the blaze was 83-year-old John Duncan.
His daughter Carol has put together a GoFundMe page to help her father who she says "lost everything except the clothes he was wearing".
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An evacuation centre has been set up at St Mary's Catholic College in Casino for those who were forced to flee the Busbys Flat fire.
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RFS spokesman Greg Allan told AAP firefighters were not expecting until Wednesday to see a reprieve in the hot and windy conditions they were experiencing as they battled the fire.
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A blaze at Long Gully Road at Drake also tore through more than 72,000 on Tuesday.
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Despite a cooler weather forecast from midweek - with temperatures expected to drop to the mid-20s - continued dry conditions meant fire dangers would not immediately fall away.
