We start this weeks news with some fireworks from Paris. After all it is Bastille Day!
We look at backpackers helping BlazeAid, threatened wallabies surviving the fires, and examine the potential for further fire this coming summer. These and other stories from around the state are featured in our weekly news roundup.
This week the VFFA gives further evidence to the Royal Commission and we feature the story of Glen Alice RFS Captain Tim Frew and his crew who worked for 79 days straight on the Gospers Mountain Fire. Plus all the other news from around the traps.
An interesting video and series of newsletters examining the relationship between bushfires, climate change and fuel loads.
A really good insight from four volunteers on the reality of firefighting this summer.
Let’s hope the Royal Commission and the RFS pay real heed to these important messages.
2,800 destroyed properties in Cobargo have been cleared since Laing O’Rourke started the clean up in January this year. They’ve finished the job.
This excellent submission by the National Farmers Federation to the Royal Commission makes compelling reading.
Country Fire Authority chief officer Steve Warrington resigned on Thursday night, hours after refusing to sign a special secondment agreement needed for the operation of the CFA from July 1.
A touchning story about three koalas named after the american C130 crew that died just after trying to save their sanctuary.
One of a number of stories in this weeks news roundup.
The ability for our infrastructure to remain operative during the bushfire season features in this weeks News Roundup. We’ve included a link to the AEMO Summer Report which details how close we were to losing our electricity network this summer. Lots of other stories from around the state.
The RFS has a number of questions that it will need to answer surrounding the loss of the C130 Hercules at Cooma in January. The Daily Telegraph has an indepth look at these.