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Fire ravages a Pacific Palisades neighbourhood amid high winds in Los Angeles.

Australia leases US firebombing aircraft in the northern winter. So what happens when LA burns in January?

Experts say Australia risks being isolated from international firefighters and water-bombing aircraft in its next bushfire season.

  • Mike Foley

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Three years ago, Australia faced the worst bushfire season on record. Now authorities are concerned the grassfire threat could be almost as bad.

‘Fires are coming back’: Authorities concerned Australia is set to burn this year

NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Rob Rogers said he remained concerned about the coming fire season, with the state facing the worst grassfire threat in 20 years.

  • Laura Chung
Flash flooding in Eugowra earlier this month washed houses off their foundations.

‘Frightening new era’: Flash flooding to grow under climate change

Rising heat in the atmosphere is increasing the volume of moisture in storm clouds and driving up the risk of intense downpours.

  • Mike Foley
Greg Mullins - former NSW fire commissioner and councillor with the Climate Council, who has written the book Firestorm .

Former fire chief Greg Mullins faces the firestorm again

Fire fighting and standing up to authorities runs in the family for former NSW fire chief, now author Greg Mullins.

  • Heath Gilmore
Katta O’Donnell, Steve Meacher, and Greg Mullins.

Good Weekend's 40 Australians Who Mattered: Environment

Law student Katta O’Donnell is taking on some of the most powerful institutions in the country, but her generation understands what is at stake. Plus, Steve Meacher and Greg Mullins.

  • Nick O'Malley
Sydney Harbour Bridge, shrouded by bushfire smoke last November; day turns to a blood red sky in Mallacoota on January 4; Greg Mullins.

'Of one thing we can be certain, the fires will return': Greg Mullins' global warning

Australia’s unprecedented summer of hell was barely over when California was ablaze. As experts warn of worse to come, one of our most outspoken former fire commissioners reflects on a new age of overlapping catastrophes.

  • Greg Callaghan
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A firefighter tackles the North Black Range bushfire, northwest of Braidwood, NSW, in December last year.

'We’re creating the fire equivalent of an ice age'

In this week's episode of Good Weekend Talks, eminent fire historian Stephen Pyne and former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins chat with Good Weekend associate editor Greg Callaghan about the 'Pyrocene' – the age of fire.

  • Konrad Marshall
Emergency Leaders for Climate Action representative Greg Mullins.

'Some things were out of bounds': Fire chiefs 'gagged' on climate change warnings to government, inquiry told

Former fire chief Greg Mullins says climate change is causing "unprecedented" bushfires.

  • Mike Foley
NSW's custom large aerial tanker 737 jet dumps fire retardant on a bushfire south of Port Macquarie in October last year.

Ex-fire chiefs say 'ridiculous' bushfire funding stymies waterbombing

Former fire chiefs say a "ridiculous" bushfire funding rule is stopping emergency bosses from waterbombing small fires before they turn into mega blazes.

  • Mike Foley and Alexandra Smith
A firebombing helicopter drops water on bushfires in New South Wales on November 8, 2019.

Government rejected major air-tanker expansion

Calls for a national air-tanker fleet to fight fires were rejected four years ago because the Coalition government said it was up to the states to fund firefighting.

  • David Crowe

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