{"id":449155,"date":"2026-01-31T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449155\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:30:10","slug":"why-does-it-smell-like-smoke-in-sydney-the-hunter-valley-newcastle-and-the-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449155\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does it smell like smoke in Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and the Central Coast?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Millions of NSW<\/a> residents have woken up to the smell of smoke and ‘poor’ air quality after firefighters spent the night tackling two bushfires.The NSW Rural Fire Service<\/a> said smoke from bushfires has drifted across to the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, the Central Coast and Sydney<\/a> overnight.The fires are burning near Medowie in Port Stephens and Nerong on the NSW Mid Coast<\/a>.\ufeff\"ThousandsThousands of NSW residents have woken up to the smell of smoke.\ufeff (NSW Rural Fire Service)<\/p>\n

“The smoke is expected to gradually clear through the morning,” NSW Rural Fire Service said.<\/p>\n

“Please only call Triple Zero (000) if you see an unattended fire.”<\/p>\n

The fire in Port Stephens is burning between Medowie and Oyster Cove, about 25 kilometres northeast of Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blaze is currently 432 hectares in size and is contained.<\/p>\n

Firefighting crews worked to establish and strengthen containment lines yesterday on the north western edge of the fire to the east of Moffats Swamp Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n

Residents in the area should still monitor the conditions \ufeffand stay up to date in case the situation changes.<\/p>\n

The fire at Nerong is currently \ufeff916 hectares in size and is not under control yet.<\/p>\n

The NSW government’s air quality monitoring service ranked the air quality in the east of Sydney, Central Coast and Lake Macquarie regions as ‘poor’.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile air quality is ‘fair’ in the central west Sydney, south-west Sydney, Illawarra, Lower H\ufeffunter, Upper Hunter and Riverina-Murray regions.<\/p>\n

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