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It was the bushfire for which the term “megablaze” was coined. Now it’s emerged that the Black Summer-era Gospers Mountain fire was worsened by NSW RFS backburning.
Greg Mullins, a firefighter of over 50 years, is still haunted by what he saw fighting Australia's worst fi...
Julie Power11:50, Jul 02 2021 Wolter Peeters/Sydney Morning Herald The holiday home architect Simon Anderson built for himself in a bushfire zone in the Blue Mountains is a finalist in this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW awards. It took four minutes last week for Australian architect Simon Anderson to secure his flame-zone rated home in New South Wales’ Megalong Valley so it would survive a fire front if the family had to flee to safety. In that time, he dropped the verandah’s three-by nine-metre wide roof, which doubles as a flame zone screen if needed, and slid othe...
Crown land reserves and community facilities in the Port Stephens region have been allocated $653,000 in funding for a range of local improvement...