BY OLIVIA DILLON
More than 70 firefighters and 27 trucks worked to contain a bushfire which broke out at Lovedale yesterday.
The blaze on Talga Road was updated to "Watch and Act" at about 2:10pm when it began threatening nearby properties.
A spokesperson from the NSW Rural Fire Service has told The Newcastle Herald, at its peak, there was a truck positioned at every neighboring home around the then 21-hectare fire.
It's since been upgraded to a 48-hectare blaze.
It was one of six fires which burned across the Hunter yesterday (Tuesday the 26th of September, 2023) and was brought back to "Alert" level just before 4:00pm.
