The RFS says strong winds are likely to push a bushfire near Lithgow towards towns in the area. Source: AAP
A NUMBER of homes have been destroyed by bushfires at Springwood and Winmalee in the NSW Blue Mountains, the Rural Fire Service fears.
NSW RFS spokesman Anthony Clark says the fire is burning very quickly there and there was potential to lose more homes over Thursday afternoon.
There are also unconfirmed reports of properties being lost at Lithgow, at Yanderra and Balmoral, in the Southern Highlands, and in Port Stephens, where a fire is burning near Newcastle Airport.
Across the state at 2.30pm (AEDT), 595 firefighters were battling 78 bush and grass fires, 31 of them uncontained.
They were bracing for the southerly change expected later on Thursday afternoon.
Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers told ABC Radio that could bring new drama.
"It's going to continue like this for ... three or four hours," he said.
"Then we're looking at a southerly change which is going to bring gusty south-westerlies which will turn the side of the fire into the head of the fire and bring us a whole new lot of drama."
The Springwood blaze is burning along Linksview Rd, with embers spotting along Hawkesbury Road.
Fifty firefighters, four aircraft and 11 fire trucks are on scene.
A witness told ABC Radio he was standing across the road from a house in Springwood that was on fire.
"The rear is well and truly alight," he said.
"The firefighters are doing all they can to save it."
RFS spokesman Anthony Clark said the Springwood fire was burning "very very quickly".
"There is potential to lose more homes over the next couple of hours," he said.
Students from Ellison Public School were being evacuated to Springwood Public School and homes were under threat due to a fire at Lithgow.
The RFS said more than 165 firefighters were battling the blaze in deteriorating conditions.
Mr Rogers told ABC Radio the strength of the wind in the Lithgow fire had grounded RFS aircraft.
Further east, a fire has breached containment lines at Heatherbrae, north of Newcastle.
The blaze has closed the Pacific Highway.
The RFS advises properties around Tomago Road, Cabbage Tree Road, Barrie Close and Williamtown Drive may be under threat.
The fire has also closed the Newcastle Airport with black smoke visible from the Newcastle CBD.
An emergency warning is also in place for a fire at Quin's Lane in South Nowra, on the south coast.
Mr Rogers said it was burning "extremely hard".
An emergency warning has also been issued for a grass fire burning around St James Road and St Davids Road at Varroville, near Camden, west of Sydney.
A fire burning in the Southern Highlands, near Balmoral and Yanderra, has closed the Hume Highway near Mittagong.
Residents in the Castle Rock area and Richlands Road west of Muswellbrook were being told to prepare for fire.
Premier Barry O'Farrell left state parliament to join the effort at RFS headquarters.
"There are parts of the state where currently residents are battling the uncertainty of the outbreak of these fires and our hearts and our thoughts are with them," he told parliament.
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