Between November 2016 and January 2017, there have been five bushfires in the Coalfields area.
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At the start of November last year, dozens of homes came under threat as a fire raged out of control in bushland on Racecourse Road in south Cessnock.
About a month later, more than 1200 hectares of bushfire burnt around Abermain and Neath.
One month after that a five-hectare bushfire broke out and closed the Hunter Expressway at Loxford.
One week later, an inferno engulfed parts of Kurri Kurri and Heddon Greta.
Less than a week after that battle, fire crews scrambled to extinguish a 20-hectare fire in Kurri Kurri.