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When lightning crashes in the forest, the NPWS is there.

Posted by NPA NSWon March 1, 2018March 7, 2018in Autumn 2018, Nature NSWLeave a comment

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Earlier this year, lightning peppered the Blue Mountains sparking about a year’s worth of bushfires in just one week. The remarkable skills, experience and sheer hard work of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) firefighters and their colleagues helped prevent these from becoming another of the infamous ‘black fire days’ that lace Australia’s history.

After the Fire: Spring 2016

Posted by NPA NSWon May 25, 2017May 29, 2017in Winter 2017Leave a comment

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On 16th October 2013 I was working in a gully near the end of the Dumbano Fire Trail in the Wollangambe wilderness north of Bell. On completing the site, I returned up the hill to the Trail to see a cloud of orange-grey smoke to the west. On checking in, I found that there was a bush fire in the Marrangaroo Demolition Training Area and I was required to evacuate and abandon work for the week.

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