The Berejiklian government has appealed to conservation and other national parks staff to help ease stretched fire-fighting teams in a bid to be "proactive" for "a long fire season”.
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| The Ruined Castle Fire burning under strong westerly winds earlier this week near Echo Point in the Blue Mountains. |
Atticus Fleming, an executive director at the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, appealed to employees to sign up for a range of roles, including logistics and mapping.
"As you may be aware, the 2019-20 fire season is unprecedented," Mr Flemming said in an email sent on Tuesday and obtained by the Herald. "To date, around 2.1 million hectares have burnt across NSW including more than 800,000 hectares on national park.”
"All agencies responding to the bushfire response in NSW are heavily committed, including [National Parks and Wildlife Service] Parks Operations branches," he said.
Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hannam and Matt Bungard - “‘Unprecedented' bushfires in NSW prompt call for more firefighters.”
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