Bushfires stretch along east coast as Sydney expected to break September heat record

Dozens of blazes in NSW, Queensland and Tasmania as extreme heatwave moves north

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Dozens of fires are burning across the east coast of Australia during the spring heatwave with residents forced to evacuate homes and Sydney expected to set a new September heat record.

There were 63 grass and bushland fires burning along the New South Wales coast on Wednesday morning including 12 that were uncontained.