Residents are being urgently evacuated from Sydney’s Northern Beaches as firefighters battle an out-of-control hazard reduction burn.
NSW Rural Fire Service issued a Watch and Act alert for 100 Meatworks Avenue in Oxford Falls on Saturday afternoon.
A hazard reduction fire has been reclassified as ‘out of control’ and is currently burning in an easterly direction towards Cromer Heights.
Residents who live on Pinduro Place, Jersey Place, Maybrook Avenue and Kirrang Street have been told it’s ‘too late to leave’ and to seek shelter.
A Watch and Act warning has been issued for the area, advising residents that the fire is out of control and there is now a ‘heightened level of threat’.
Residents in the vicinity of Maybrook Retirement Village are being urged to prepare now for the possibility of evacuating the area.
Those in Narraweena and Cromer areas should prepare for an ember attack, the NSW Rural Fire Service warned at 3.30pm.
Locals are being updated on the Northern Beaches Living Facebook page.
A bushfire has been marked out of control in Oxford Falls (smoke is pictured at Manly Beach)
A hazard reduction burn has been classified as out-of-control near Oxford Falls (pictured)
‘The smoke that can be seen is unfortunately from a fire at Oxford Falls that has reached Out Of Control status,’ one person wrote.
‘Hoping our brave firies can get this one under control soon.’
More to come.
