41.   The storms, the first to reach Sydney since the crisis started Christmas Eve, also brought strong winds that fanned flames that firefighters had tried to contain.

42.   There were no reported injuries and firefighters were trying to stop the fire from spreading to inhabited areas.

43.   They spoke as firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze that erupted after the crash, and paramedics were treating the injured.

44.   Three hundred firefighters are already trying to tame two forest fires within a few kilometres of town.

45.   Two people died early Saturday morning in a house fire as firefighters desperately tried to reach them.

46.   While firefighters tried to extinguish flames in one part of the parliament, protesters were busy setting wooden walls ablaze elsewhere in the building.

47.   Wilds said firefighters were trying to contain the fire on one side of the road to keep the blaze from moving into nearby pine forests.

48.   Firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze the crash sent spreading through a number of homes.

49.   Homes in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney were also under threat as firefighters desperately tried to contain them.

50.   Firefighters meanwhile tried to bring the blazes under control as thick black smoke poured from the prison and flames lit the sky.