A 60 hectare bush fire was still burning out of control 100 kilometres south of Canberra late Friday night.
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The fire was first reported about 2.20pm on Friday afternoon on Shannons Flat Road, north of Cooma.
NSW emergency services weere on the scene, including 20 firefighters and 10 fire trucks from the NSW Rural Fire Service and two fire trucks from NSW Fire and Rescue.
It is classified as out of control and firefighters were working to contain it late on Friday night.
A spokesperson for the NSW RFS said no properties were under threat as of Friday afternoon.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency is sending a taskforce made up of volunteer members of the ACT Rural Fire Service and staff from Parks Brigade to help.
"The team will take a total of 10 firefighting appliances on the deployment including two heavy fire tankers, six medium fire tankers and two light units plus command vehicles," the agency said.
"The Taskforce is expected to commence property protection and fire containment on arrival later tonight [Friday]."