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nights isolated with no electricity or telecommunications, and dwindling food supplies, before authorities on Thursday deemed some roads out of the region temporarily safe to use.\n\nNSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance told public broadcaster ABC it would be the \u201clargest evacuation of people out of the region ever\u201d, with thousands preparing to leave ahead of another \u201cterrible\u201d day of fires.\n\nNSW Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner Rob Rogers said firefighters were unable to extinguish or even control the raging blazes.\n\n\u201cThe message is we've got so much fire in that area, we have no capacity to contain these fires,\u201d he told ABC.\n\n\u201cWe just need to make sure that people are not in front of them.\u201d\n\nBut with food and fuel supplies reportedly running short in many centres, there were concerns some would remain trapped.\n\nAuthorities still have not been able to reach some rural communities, such as the town of Genoa in 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