 The fire was ultimately brought under control several hours later, with one firefighter injured suffering a broken arm.Because of the bushfires occurring in the surrounding regions, the Sydney metropolitan area suffered from dangerous smoky haze for several days throughout December, with the air quality being eleven times the hazardous level in some days, making it even worse than New Delhi's, where it was also compared to "smoking 32 cigarettes" by Associate Professor Brian Oliver, a respiratory diseases scientist at the University of Technology Sydney.On 10 December 2019 the fire impacted the south-western Sydney suburbs of and , followed by and , threatening hundreds of houses and resulting in the destruction of one building.