A firemen sits with a resident outside her home on the edge of burning bushland as winds move the fires towards houses in the lower Blue Mountains town of Blaxland December 31, 2001.[ More than 100 summer bushfires continue to burn out of control on Sydney's outskirts as thousands of weary firefighters across the state of New South Wales battle blazes for a fourth day. Some 150 houses and thousands of hectares have been destroyed, but there have been no deaths or serious injuries.]