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Format: Text, Location: NSW, Stories

Home, Smokey Home

Story by Nicole Webster. Our first child was born on New Year’s Eve 2019. It was a time of mixed emotions for us as we welcomed our daughter into the world before we realised that we could not return to our old fibro home because it could not keep the smoke out. Continue reading Home, Smokey Home

Scott WebsterApril 30, 2022July 20, 2022
Format: Video, Location: NSW, Stories

Fire Stories 2: Living with Risk

Story by Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute. This documentary film explores the 2013 bush fires that devastated the Blue Mountains townships of Winmalee and Yellow Rock, and documents the recovery of the community afterwards. Continue reading Fire Stories 2: Living with Risk

Scott WebsterApril 29, 2022June 4, 2022
Format: Video, Location: NSW, Stories

Fire Stories: A Lesson in Time

Story by Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute. This documentary film explores the impacts of the catastrophic fires in 1957 on the Blue Mountains community in Leura. Continue reading Fire Stories: A Lesson in Time

Scott WebsterApril 29, 2022May 24, 2022
“Blue Mountain sunset” by Aftab Uzzaman (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Format: Text, Location: NSW, Stories

Duty Tells

Story by Anonymous. This story discusses the reaction of the Rural Fire Services’ Incident Management Teams (IMTs) to the Gospers Mountain Fire in 2019. Continue reading Duty Tells

Scott WebsterApril 8, 2022April 18, 2022
Format: Text, Location: NSW, Stories

Blue Mountains on Fire, 2019

Story by Kim Grace aka Amos O’Henry. Christmas 2019 saw large areas of the East Coast of Australia burning, including in the Blue Mountains. Kim Grace watched these fires with growing apprehension; he had seen it all before and just hoped that this time he would not lose everything. Continue reading Blue Mountains on Fire, 2019

Scott WebsterApril 1, 2022April 18, 2022
Format: Text, Location: NSW, Stories

Two Months On The Edge

Story by Elizabeth Morgan. What’s it like being the meat in a fire sandwich? I spent two months on the edge in the 2019-2020 summer as two megafires – in the Blue Mountains – Gospers Mountains to the north, Green Wattle Creek to the south – raced towards each other, the firefront sometimes gaining 12 kilometres a day. Continue reading Two Months On The Edge

Thom van DoorenNovember 20, 2020April 18, 2022

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