Sydney weather: Power cuts, fires as heatwave begins to recede - for now

By Peter Hannam, Isobel Cootes
Updated February 4 2017 - 11:13am, first published January 12 2017 - 12:12am
Bondi beach offered one place to dodge the worst of Sydney's latest heat spell. Photo: Daniel Munoz
Bondi beach offered one place to dodge the worst of Sydney's latest heat spell. Photo: Daniel Munoz
A Rural Fire Service crew extinguishes a grass fire in Luddenham on Wednesday.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
A Rural Fire Service crew extinguishes a grass fire in Luddenham on Wednesday. Photo: Wolter Peeters
A group of women exercise at Bondi beach before temperatures reached 38 degrees. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A group of women exercise at Bondi beach before temperatures reached 38 degrees. Photo: Kate Geraghty

More than 17,000 people across Sydney were left without power for hours on Wednesday after the hottest day of the year saw temperatures hit 42 degrees in the west and 38 degrees in the city.

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