Firefighters battling wildfires in Australia are braced for conditions to get worse in the coming days, with high temperatures and strong winds expected to intensify the danger.

Walls of flames 100ft high swept through parched eucalyptus forests and destroyed at least three homes as several fires raged out of control north of Sydney today.

Australia’s worst bush fires in a generation raged out of control around Sydney today, claiming the life of a second elderly man as winds pushed the towering flames closer to the city’s affluent northern suburbs.

THE set for the popular television series Home and Away has been destroyed in the bushfires ravaging Australia.