Veteran NSW fire captain Bruce Richardson is demanding volunteers like him be heard at a national fire inquiry, blasting "crazy" bureaucratic red tape stopping hazard reduction burns and national parks for locking up fire trails.
In evidence of a split between some volunteers on the fire front and the NSW Rural Fire Service headquarters, Mr Richardson said the RFS, National Parks and Wildlife Service and governments must "get their act together" on fuel reduction before bushfire season.
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