The fire, and burning off efforts, have burnt out around 450 hectares.

Fire agencies have declared a section 44 thereby allowing improved coordination and resources between National Parks and Wildlife Services, Forests NSW fire fighters and other local Rural Fire Service (RFS) crews.

Kiah Rural Fire Service captain Errol McGovern, who supplied the Magnet with photographs of the fire, worked through the night on Sunday.

“It burnt like it was the middle of the day even though it was only 15 degrees,” he said of the fire’s night time behaviour.

Mr McGovern said the relative humidity was 90 per cent.

Rural Fire Service incident controller John Cullen spoke with the Magnet on Tuesday afternoon.

“The whole fire is tracked with machinery. This has included a lot of aerial and incendiary work to burn out areas that haven’t burnt so we have haven’t got unburnt areas near control lines.

“We have 25 fire fighters at present, as well as 13 fire appliances, six dozers and six aircraft working on the fire.

“Conditions look pretty good for the next few days although there is some lightning and storm activity forecast that we will keep an eye on.

“An air base is operating out of Bombala and incident control is working out of the Bega Fire Control Centre.

“Other than that it will be a matter of backing out, mopping up and extinguishing anything remaining,” Mr Cullen said.

The RFS advises that residents of Fulligans, Perico, Burragate and Towamba are unlikely to be in any danger but they have been urged to be aware of the fire and keep an eye out for weather forecasts and messages from the fire control centre on the radio and internet.

The fire was detected by fire towers in Victoria and Wolumla at around 2.30pm on Saturday following lightning strikes.

Coordinated fire fighting by the NSW Rural Fire Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service and Forests NSW continues.