What saved Kurrajong Heights from the Gospers Mountain fire?
The Hawkesbury Gazette published a very good account of the community debrief conducted by VFFA Vice President Brian Williams and the Kurrajong Heights Brigade at the fire shed on 14th March just before the Covid restrictions came into force.
It explained how the brigade’s approach to hazard reduction had saved the community. The brigade uses a mosaic approach where the surrounds are divided into 18 blocks, each being burnt on a 12 year cycle.
Honeybugle is located on the Pangee Road in the Bogan Shire, central New South Wales. It is approximately 40km from Nyngan and about 460km west-northwest from Sydney. We visited the crew from the Honeybugle Rural Fire Brigade last year to…
This video shows some country that is burned almost every year. Flame heights are low and the country looks great. If you let the scrub get up, the flame heights damage the environment. This is a simple formula for healthy…
Owners say the property was saved by the traditional Indigenous technique of cultural burning conducted on their land three years ago. Aboriginal cultural fire practitioner Dennis Barber led a series of cultural burns on six hectares of bushland at Ngurrumpaa…
