- Residents are being evacuated from Oxford Falls
Residents are being urgently evacuated from Sydney’s northern beaches as firefighters battle an out-of-control risk reduction blaze.
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service has issued a watch and act alert for 100 Meatworks Avenue in Oxford Falls on Saturday afternoon.
The fire is located near Oxford Falls Rd, 2 km northwest of Beacon Hill.
Residents living in Pinduro Place, Jersey Place, Maybrook Avenue and Kirrang Street have been told it is “too late to leave” and must seek shelter.
It is understood a risk reduction burn has been reclassified as “out of control” and is currently burning eastwards towards Maybrook Avenue.
A watch and act warning has been issued for the area, warning residents that the fire is out of control and there is now a “heightened threat level.”
Residents near Maybrook Retirement Village are urged to prepare now for the possibility of evacuating the area.
More to come.
A bushfire has been declared out of control at Oxford Falls (smoke seen on Manly Beach)
A risk reduction burn has been classified as out of control near Oxford Falls (pictured)