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The fire chief who guided NSW through the Black Summer bushfire crisis says he learned via media reports he was getting sacked from a state disaster agency.

"The car accident scenario was a joint agency response with NSW Ambulance and NSW Fire and Recue."

Government defends measures against claims of slow progress, lack of consultation and a decision to put pods in a flood zone

Sydney has taken only two weeks to shatter its rainfall record for July, as the prospect of 2022 being the city's wettest year becomes more likely.

Authorities are hoping to allow all flood victims to return home before the weekend is out with 105,000 now given the green light to go back.

Sunshine broke over flood clean-up efforts in areas west and north of Sydney and Sunday rainfall is unlikely to cause further flooding

Resilience NSW directors Dean Betts and Mel Gore have been appointed to manage the state's flood clean-up efforts, as 100 Victorian emergency workers fly in.

More local government areas across the Hunter region have been declared natural disaster zones, making federal-state relief money available to more people affected by the floods that have inundated many parts of NSW this week.

Clean-up work has begun in many soaked NSW regions, but 40,000 people remain under evacuation orders amid the danger of still-rising waters.

As winter bites, people who lost their homes to floods across northern New South Wales are still waiting for a $350 million promise to be delivered.

Floodwaters inundated or were threatening the homes of 85,000 people around Sydney on Wednesday as rivers started to recede and the heavy rains tracked north of Australia’s largest city. While rain was easing across Sydney, several waterways including the Hawkesbury-Nepean rivers system on Sydney’s northern and western fringes remained at…