Members of the public are being urged to remain vigilant with three fires still burning in the Port Macquarie-Hastings local government area.
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Rural Fire Service district officer Stuart Robb says the public play an important role in ensuring fires are reported.
"If any member of the public sees a fire and does not see a fire truck in attendance they are urged to ring triple-0 immediately," he said.
"We want the public to remain vigilant.
"At this critical time it is also important that residents review their bushfire survival plan and get acquainted with the Fires Near Me app.
"The quicker we jump on these fires the better chance we have to contain them," he said.
Mr Robb says the long range weather forecast was predicting continued high temperatures across much of NSW.
There is a high temperature band to the west of NSW that will keep temperatures relatively high for the next few days, he said.
"We have a couple of days coming up that feature fairly hot weather.
"The weather pattern is forecast to be continued high temperatures along with strong coastal winds.
The weather pattern is forecast to be continued high temperatures along with strong coastal winds.
- Stuart Robb
"This system is putting a lot of pressure on the coastal fringe of the Mid Coast RFS area.
"Once we get further west we don't have quite the wind impact we are experiencing on the coastal fringe."
The district officer says the three fires in the local government area are all at patrol status.
He said the Elkhorn Trail fire burnt out some 130 hectares of land with crews continuing to patrol the site for the remainder of the week.
"We are not expecting that fire to cause any further issues," he added.
"The Middle Brother fire, which covered 53 hectares, is also at patrol status as is the Kindee fire, which burnt out around 10 hectares.
"Thankfully fire crews from all local agencies with the support of aircraft and crews did an excellent job of containing those three fires," he said.
"Despite the terrible conditions, crews were able to get containment lines around the fires despite the high wind conditions.
"Everyone did a great job," he said.
The RFS on January 3 suspended fire permits issued across the Mid Coast region.
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