A seven-week-long bushfire which has damaged Grose Valley of Australia's World Heritage Listed Blue Mountains National Park near Sydney, has finally been stopped. Talking to social media on Tuesday evening, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) informed the public of the good news. "This afternoon we have some great news to report. After 47 long hard days of firefighting, we are pleased to say that the Grose Valley Fire is declared out," the RFS said. "A big thank you to all fire crews from all agencies that have worked on this fire and thank you to all from the community that have supported the operations."
Burning through 510,000 hectares of land, Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill told local media the Grose Valley blaze has been subject of an incredible amount of work by both volunteers and paid emergency workers over weeks and weeks. While Greenhill added that it will give people on the northern side of the Blue Mountains a moment to relax and reflect on the performances of emergency services, he warned that the danger is not over yet. Two other major fires, Ruined Castle and Erskine Creek, are still active in the region which are around 40,000 hectares.
"How much damage that's done to flora and fauna will become apparent when we can get in there and look at it," Greenhill said. "We know our businesses have been absolutely hammered. We are open for business. We need people to come." Although the economic and environmental impacts will be "more immediately dealt with", Greenhill said the psychosocial effects will take months, maybe years. "Whether it's the firefighters and the families, people who have lost their homes or just people who have had to deal with the ongoing tension of when the fires were coming," he said.
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