SYDNEY - Bushfires across Australias New South Wales are now contained for the first time in nearly six months, authorities said on Friday, as heavy rains aid firefighters and boost some dam levels to their highest in nearly two years.

Australia has been battling hundreds of blazes since September in an unusually prolonged summer bushfire season that was fuelled by three years of drought, which experts have attributed to climate change.

Aided by storms that lashed Australias east coast earlier this week, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said 24 blazes remain alight across the state, though all are now under control.

After whats been a truly devastating fire season for both firefighters and residents who suffered through so much this season, all fires are now contained in New South Wales. Which is great news, NSW RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers told the ABC.