On Sunday, volunteers from my own Rural Fire Service brigade faced off against 70 metre flames in the Blue Mountains. Properties were consumed by fire but thankfully no life was lost. This mega-blaze at Gospers Mountain, where I have spent several 16-hour shifts, has been raging for weeks and burned more than 380,000 hectares. There are 117 bushfires blazing in NSW alone and we face extreme heat by the end of the week.
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| Firefighters battle the Gospers Mountain fire near Colo Heights. |
The Prime Minister has urged everyone to calm down about bushfires raging through NSW, Queensland, and now WA. He has said that he can recall as a boy seeing Sydney surrounded by bushfire smoke haze, and that for children, or anyone who hadn’t experienced it before, it was “deeply troubling”.
Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Greg Mullins - “Come with me to the mega-blaze, Scott Morrison, and see what we're up against.”
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