AlHijjah 16, 1434, Oct 21, 2013, SPA -- Firefighters said they had made progress Monday in containing three of biggest fires in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney that threatened to coalesce into one "super fire", DPA reported. More than 200 homes have been destroyed and one life lost in a bushfire emergency that began last week in the woods about 70 kilometres west of Sydney. The fires - 62 individual fires with a combined perimeter of 300 kilometres - have burned through more than 100,000 hectares in the most serious conflagration in south-eastern Australia since the 1960s. "Earlier projections were that it had every potential of all three fires joining together," Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said. "We can't rule it out but hopefully at this stage, with everything that's been going on in the last 24 hours or so, we've lessened the likelihood of that occurring."
