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’.
Mal Rixon narrowly survived the bushfires of last summer, but his bus was not as lucky. That is where a charity headed by Sir Peter Cosgrove stepped in to help.
More than six months after inferno ripped through historic Cobargo, the rebuild can finally begin for businesses on the town’s strip as clean up on the main street is completed.
Brave Ivan Kovalevskiy is finding his feet again after cheating death six months ago. The 12-year-old was crushed by a falling tree while fighting fires on his family’s south coast property. READ HIS AMAZING STORY
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
Former Wallaby Al Baxter was fearsome on a rugby field but on New Year’s Eve he joined more than 1000 people in a terrifying fight for life on Malua Bay beach. A whiskey in his beach bag settled his nerves after a frightening day. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Just hours after clarifying resignation rumours and declaring that “it took a bloody big fire for me to realise how wrong politics is in this country”, Bega MP Andrew Constance has made a final call on his future.
For Andrew Constance, daily life is hard. The repercussions of the shock of New Year’s Eve morning are still revealing themselves to the Bega MP who contemplated his fate three times as a fatal inferno roared towards Malua Bay on the NSW south coast. HEAR HIS STORY IN OUR EXCLUSIVE PODCAST
Water is starting to fill dams on bone-dry land in the state’s far west and south as a rain system moves over NSW off the back of ex-tropical cyclone Esther, but meteorologists warn the downpour will not be able to break the drought.
Less than $200 million in federal funding has gone out the door to bushfire affected communities from a multi-billion dollar fund lauded by the Morrison Government during the bushfire crisis.
A dream-team of Australian and global artists, including Mambo creator Reg Mombassa and his daughter Lucy O’Doherty, are raising money for bushfire-related charities.
An internationally-renowned fire ecologist has warned hazard reduction burns won’t stop bushfires with even cooler months not providing opportunities to hit significantly higher targets.
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