Ah... yes. So two colleagues drove from Coffs to Sydney and had plentiful of de-tours and didn’t drive past any fires on the side of the highways let alone through towns such as this one:
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6104791174001
You’d be surprised what these fires can do!
More hectares of land were and still are on fire compared to the recent Amazon fires and California.
Luckily I couldn’t get on my flight to Coffs as they were cancelled in and out.