This photo taken on December 18, 2019 shows firefighters making arrangements to secure the residential area from an approaching bushfire in Dargan, some 120 kilometres from Sydney. - Bushfires have been raging along Australia's east coast for months, burning three million hectares (7.4 million acres) -- equivalent to the size of Belgium -- and razed more than 800 homes in worst-hit New South Wales alone. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)