Authorities are warning Australians must 'be ready' for a bad bushfire season - regardless of whether El Niño develops or not. 9News
Just this weekend, hundreds of firefighters were deployed to fight heatwave-fuelled grassfires burning throughout the state.
Adding to the concern is the fact the service is "way behind" on mitigation strategies like burn-offs because of the persistent wet weather. "It could be too hot, too windy, too cold, too wet; you've got to find that narrow window right in between. "You've got the northern suburbs, Gosford area, Hornsby, the Hills, Sutherland; all of those areas didn't burn.One memory still haunts Rogers from the catastrophic fire season of 2019/2020."The memory for me is when we started to lose lives, and then firefighter lives as well," he said."That fire season just was beyond."
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