"The fire has taken about 100 homes in the Blue Mountains and they're just up the road from where I live.

"My neighbour range me to tell me to come out and see what was happening. I could see the fire on the ridge – it's a huge flame that goes across the horizon.

"I just drove down to there so far away the fire was but they told us were were safe for another night.

"There's more than 400 firefighters tackling it; they're doing something called 'back-burning' which means they are getting in front of the fire and burning the forest so the main one doesn't have anywhere to go.

"But it's a close call. It's 3.8km away and the main fire is 488,000 hectares, and that's just one in South Australia. It's joining with another fire, making 540,000 hectares over all.

"Both of our cars are packed up with our valuables. Anything that has been left in the house will burn – we've taken everything we want off site.

"We will just drive off in the clothes we're wearing. We've had ash from the burning tress on us and that meant we had to spend a thousand dollars on an air purification machine.

"We have toxicity in the air because of the climate change forest fires.

"We've taken our favourite ornaments off the tree and my kids have said it won't feel like Christmas. This is the only house they have ever known and it could burn down."

Jon Dee told Sky News

Many Australians are incredibly angry with the lack of action on climate change.

We're seeing the results of it right. Here, in the Blue Mountains, it's truly awful – it's a truly awful day.

The ferocity of the fire is way over what we're used to and we're getting fires that are coming earlier, and more often.

It just feels like the whole of Australia is on fire right now.