Spy cameras to reveal cost of Black Summer bushfires
With a death toll in the billions a massive surveillance operation using cutting edge technology will be rolled out to discover which endangered animals survived last summer’s bushfires.
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Bushfire hell: ‘It was like watching sunrise in reverse’
With no power, no phone and no internet, Hamish Payne kept the only supermarket in Bermagui open to provide essential supplies for as long as possible during the Black Summer fires.
Bushfire victims slam inquiry: ‘hot air and arse-covering’
Victims who lost their homes in the Black Summer bushfires have slammed the royal commission report into future disaster management, describing the inquiry as ‘a lot of hot air and arse-covering’.
‘Don’t send anybody’: Conditions before fatal RFS crash revealed
A text message has revealed the danger of the conditions three hero American firefighters faced before crashing their plane, killing all on board, during the Black Summer bushfires: ‘Don’t send anybody and we’re not going back’.
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Bushfire victim denied Red Cross grant for not having utility bill
A woman who lost her home in the bushfires was initially knocked back from Red Cross funding because she couldn’t provide a utility bill, the Royal Commission has heard. It comes as experts told the Commission climate change is leading to hotter and drier droughts. LIVE UPDATES
Help available for forgotten bushfire victims
People hit hard by the NSW summer bushfires will be offered financial help under a new plan to target those who have not yet claimed support. The $8.5m program involves help from local councils, Service NSW, Resilience NSW and charities.
Bushfire clean-up still ‘months’ from completion
Millions of dollars have announced to rebuild bushfire-ravaged towns but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the debris clean up program had been “very difficult” for the states to roll out, with work still ‘months’ from completion.
Mates under fire: The NSW south coast ‘temporal saints’
What happens when more than 1000 people are left to their own devices to fight for their lives in an inferno? In this podcast you will find out, and you will meet the best of Australians.
‘It’s over’: RFS chief reflects on NSW’s summer from hell
NSW’s most devastating bushfire season on record has officially ended, eclipsed by a new crisis — COVID-19. But with the 2020 fire season just months away, the RFS warns there’s no time for complacency as it reflects on a nightmare summer.
‘We won’t forget you’: $1m to fire victims
A new $1 million fund has been launched today by News Corp Australia to help Australia’s bushfire victims in their recovery.
Surviving long haul trauma of the NSW bushfires
The “long haul” of trauma recovery is very familiar to Lifeline counsellor Stephanie Robinson. The CEO of the central Western Division of the support service has transferred from years of helping drought-stricken farmers to the fire-ravaged south coast.EXCLUSIVE PODCAST
How horror bushfire season changed RFS chief forever
Fire chief Shane Fitzsimmons says he will always remember the impact the state’s dreadful fire season — which led to 25 deaths, including six of his own men — had on him and the people of NSW. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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