New South Wales bushfires – in pictures

Fire and rescue officers from New South Wales try to extinguish a bushfire burning on the outskirts of Lithgow Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A house is engulfed in flames in Yellow Rock in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney Photograph: Jason Webster/AAP

The smouldering remains of a truck at the historic township Newnes Junction, north of Lithgow Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Sean Butler, who fought the fire with five other residents at the historic township Newnes Junction Photograph: AAP/Dean Lewins

A rural fire service firefighter monitors a bushfire burning close to homes on Patterson Street in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

RFS firefighters battle a bushfire Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

A blanket of smoke descends on Sydney Photograph: Paul Lovelace/Rex Features

Thick smoke from a bushfire burning near Springwood in the Blue Mountains is seen near Blacktown, west of Sydney Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Smoke from bushfires in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, turn the sun into a pink ball Photograph: Corbis/Steve Christo

NSW bushfires seen from Nasa satellite. Photograph: Nasa Earth Observatory