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Helen Foulis, in pink, with members of the Bilpin community say they can already dance and would rather receive a grant for bushfire infrastructure equipment.

Bushfire-affected community asks for water storage, gets dance lessons

Resilience NSW officers determined in February the dance classes were “meritorious” but could not be funded under the bushfire recovery grants program. They funded them anyway.

  • Harriet Alexander

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Firefighters worked through the night to contain a back burn that got out of control at Mt Wilson in NSW’s Blue Mountains.

NSW Rural Fire Service exonerates itself over backburn gone wrong

The NSW Rural Fire Service investigated itself and concluded that the Mount Wilson backburn was the result of “careful planning”.

  • Harriet Alexander
A wedge of Ben's apple pie with vanilla ice-cream.
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Good, good, good vibrations at High Hopes Roadhouse, Bilpin

Manoo Robertson and Sean Moran of Bondi's Sean's Panaroma are serving up old-fashioned country comfort at this roadside cottage in the Blue Mountains.

  • Terry Durack
Firefighters run for safety as the Green Wattle Creek fire explodes from the bush in Orangeville, NSW, in December.

In the line of fire: the summer that changed us

This bushfires photographic special is our way of recognising all that has happened to our fellow Australians, and all that has been done and continues to be done by the incredible people leading the fight and recovery.

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‘Like a bad dream’: Bilpin’s day of reckoning

For Nick Moir, the Herald’s chief photographer, it’s not just a job. Seeing his hometown in flames was devastating.

  • Nick Moir
Owner of Hillbilly Cider Shane McLaughlin says people are returning to Bilpin to support local businesses.

Bilpin businesses open doors to tourists in bushfire recovery operation

The Blue Mountains town of Bilpin is welcoming tourists back to the area after a fire tore through in December.

  • Laura Chung and Nick Moir
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Ella Hungerford Shreaves filmed the rising flames through the double-glazed picture window at the front of the wooden house in which her mother, Felicity Shreaves and partner Ian Muir, had lived for decades.

Dramatic footage shows Bilpin family home engulfed by blaze

A family have captured the terrifying moments an unstoppable bushfire threatened to engulf their property in Bilpin, north-west of Sydney.

  • Kate Aubusson
Margaret Tadrosse and her husband Simon have vowed to rebuild after the Blue Mountains bushfires swept through their orchards,  the Bilpin Fruit Bowl.

'Watch it all burn': Bilpin residents lose homes, businesses in fire

Margaret Tadrosse, the owner of popular tourist spot the Bilpin Fruit Bowl, which has been almost completely destroyed by Saturday's bushfires, said many residents have lost something over the weekend.

  • Laura Chung, Pallavi Singhal and Nick Moir
NSW Fire and Rescue attempt to hold the Gospers Mountain Fire from crossing the Bells Line of Road. It roared over the road destroying power lines.

'Waiting, waiting, waiting': Bilpin's day of reckoning arrives

Flames filled the tree canopy and fire whirls appeared when the main front of the Gospers Mountain backburn caught up with a spot fire.

  • Laura Chung and Nick Moir
Kurrajong Heights firefighters work on burnt-out bushland at Berambing on Monday ahead of ominous forecasts this week.

'Beyond human control': Huge fire enters the Grose Valley

Blue Mountains towns are bracing for a heightened fire threat as blazes expand and communities and volunteers tally the toll after yet more homes were lost.

  • Peter Hannam

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