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Nov 1, 2023 · Exhausted crews across Queensland and New South Wales have faced another gruelling night as more than 120 bushfires continued to burn across the eastern states.
Nov 8, 2019 · A third person has been identified as dozens of bushfires continue to rip across New South Wales and Queensland, destroying homes and lives. ... victims are Vivian Chaplain, 69, Julie Fletcher, 63 ...
Nov 10, 2021 · One of the worst-hit regions was the south coast of New South Wales, where about a thousand homes were destroyed. Two years on, rebuilding houses and lives is taking longer than expected.
- 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...
Nov 9, 2019 · Three people are dead, five missing, 30 injured and at least 150 homes have been lost as “unprecedented” bushfires sweep through northern New South Wales and south east Queensland.
Oct 26, 2023 · Australia's most serious bushfire season since its so-called "Black Summer" has turned fatal. ... Two people also died fighting fires in New South Wales (NSW) last week. ... the Queensland Fire ...
Jan 31, 2020 · How Australia has been battling bushfires during a devastating fire season. ... Australia's biggest fire occurred Dec 1974-Jan 1975 in western New South Wales and across the states and Northern ...
