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Nov 26, 2021 · Fri 26 Nov 2021 Friday 26 November 2021 Fri 26 Nov 2021 at 10:00am Display caption The CSIRO has collected data from the past 90 years to track the increasing frequency of megafires.
Here's what we know so far: - 58 fires are still burning across NSW and 14 are uncontained. - An emergency warning remains in place. - Temperatures in the mid-30s are expected today, with low ...
Oct 23, 2013 · Traffic updates. You can check NSW traffic here. 12:38pm. Update on the Linksview Road fire. This from the Rural Fire Service website: Rain fell over the fire grounds last night and dampened fire ...
- Nymboida: No Formula For Recovery
- 'Difficult' Decision to Leave
- Talarm: Starting from Scratch
- Bobin: We Look Out For Each Other
- Communities 'Fire Ready'
Nymboida resident Laena Stephenson and her husband lost their home when the fires tore through their town north-west of Coffs Harbour, destroying 85 houses in the area. The fire hit in November 2019 and they've been living in a shed since, and focussing on the Nymboida Camping and Canoeing Centre, with which they are heavily involved. They are just...
Not everyone, though, has decided to rebuild. Jennifer Spencer, also lost her home at Nymboida and, after about 40 years in that community, has since made the tough decision to start a new life elsewhere. "It was the difficulty in getting things moving, getting things cleaned, up and the weather was getting to me. "Trying to clean up on your own an...
South of Coffs Harbour at Talarm, west of Macksville, Tonia Welsh and Will Norman have successfully rebuilt after the bushfires wiped out their home. Their new property has been designed to use the environment to help heat and cool the house, and provide future bushfire protection. It's built into the hill and there is sand on the roof balcony "We ...
Further south, the village of Bobin, north-west of Taree, is also slowly bouncing back, after 18 homes, and the local school, were destroyed in a bushfire in November 2019. "Everybody was affected in some way," Bobin Hall president, Peter Schouten, said. "Some are still coming to terms with it, suffering some form of anxiety as a result of it. Mr S...
A 'Fire Ready' project has also been launched at Bobin to ensure residents and emergency service crews would be better equipped to manage future bushfire events. It will involve signposting properties in an emergency to show if residents are home, or have evacuated, and also include installing a pipe at front gates, containing relevant property inf...
Jan 31, 2020 · Clarification 10th May 2021: Australia's biggest fire occurred Dec 1974-Jan 1975 in western New South Wales and across the states and Northern Territory, when 15% of the country was burned.
Sep 30, 2021 · Published Date: 30 Sep 2021. All but nine local government areas of NSW will be in the bush fire season from tomorrow as the recent wet weather continues to build on grass fire concerns. NSW Commissioner Rob Rogers said the majority of state will be in the Bush Fire Danger Period from Friday 1 October 2021 with only a handful in southern NSW ...
Aug 31, 2021 · Published Date: 31 Aug 2021. An additional 21 areas across NSW will enter the bush fire season tomorrow due to local conditions. NSW Commissioner Rob Rogers said these Local Government Areas (LGAs) will commence the Bush Fire Danger Period from Wednesday 1 September 2021, bringing the number of LGAs in bush fire season to 27.
