What is fire and how are bushfires changing?
Normal text size Very large text size It was on New Year's Eve 2019, with the horror summer not yet done and a global pandemic still to come, that Greg Mullins saw something once thought to be fire-fighting legend: a blaze so big it generated its own lightning storm. As a kid, watching his father rush off to fight fires and then signing up himself to his local brigade at 13, heâd heard the stories of such phenomena. âBut none of us expected to see one.â On the last night of 2019, when the storm front came, it blocked out the sun, throwing down spears of lightning that ignited n...
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