FIRE crews remain on edge after a flare-up of a bushfire burning out of control at Springwood in the Blue Mountains.
An air crane is being sent to the fire, one of three blazes currently at "watch and act level" in the mountains west of Sydney along with fires at Lithgow and Mt Victoria.
"It's starting to flare up around Linksview (Road Fire) again," the Rural Fire Service's Ben Shepherd told reporters, adding that RFS officials were assessing whether to lift the alert for the fire to "emergency".
Deputy Fire Commissioner Rob Rogers said while Thursday's conditions in the Blue Mountains were much more favourable than Wednesday, there was still work to be done.
"The immediate high risk danger has passed, but by no means has the danger passed completely," he told reporters in Faulconbridge.
Mr Rogers said emergency crews were also on the way to the NSW Shoalhaven area after a fixed-wing aircraft contracted to the RFS crashed while a fighting a fire near Ulladulla.
Grave concerns are held for plane's pilot, the aircraft's sole occupant.
The accident highlighted the dangers of fire fighting, Mr Rogers said.
"Firefighting is an inherently dangerous task, whether you're on the ground or flying through the air," he said.
"You've got something that can't be controlled, limited visibility, multiple aircraft working in the area, there's always danger."
Meanwhile, the RFS has been at pains not to apportion blame after a report found the State Mine Fire burning at Lithgow was caused by a defence explosives training exercise on army land at Marrangaroo.
Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said whatever defence did to start the fire was clearly unintentional.
"It wasn't deliberate. It was a side effect of a routine activity ... and clearly there was not intention to see fire start up and run as a result of that activity," he told reporters at RFS headquarters on Thursday.
Mr Rogers said it would be "prejudging" to suggest negligence was a factor.
"When fires start, where there's human intervention, there's carelessness and then there's just simply accidents happening," he said.
A watch and act warning remains in place for a fire at Gateshead, southwest of Newcastle.
A fire at Minmi, also in the Newcastle area, has been downgraded, but remains uncontained and is causing spotting along the M1.
The RFS said a fire burning in the Hawkesbury near Colo had also flared up and was headed east towards isolated communities in Upper Macdonald and Perrys Crossing.
"They will be able to see this thing and it will look like it's bearing down on them," RFS spokesman Ben Shepherd told reporters.
It was not near many homes, he said.
Premier Barry O'Farrell praised the "superb team effort" from everyone involved in responding to the fires.
"It will take literally weeks of work from firefighters and hopefully heavy rain to ensure this situation is brought under control and those fires extinguished," he told parliament.
"Attention is now turning to the rebuilding task, which is clearly both heartbreaking and daunting."
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