Firefighters in Australia battled hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures Wednesday as new blazes were whipped up in a weeklong bushfire emergency, but fears of a catastrophe eased.

With the crisis in its seventh day, 71 fires were raging across an area with a perimeter of 1,600 kilometers in New South Wales state and 29 of them were uncontained.

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