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NSW bushfires razed 45 homes

Forty-five homes and more than 2000 sheep and cattle were lost in bushfires across NSW earlier in February.

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Almost 50 homes and thousands of sheep were lost in bushfires that raged across parts of NSW in the most "catastrophic" fire conditions in the state's history.

The Rural Fire Service on Saturday confirmed that 45 homes were razed, most in the central west, while more than 2000 sheep and nearly 400 cattle died in last weekend's bushfires.

More than a dozen homes are thought to have been lost in in Friday's bushfire at Carwoola, east of Queanbeyan, but firefighters are still assessing the damage.


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