one year since a single bolt of lightning at Gospers Mountain started one of the most devastating bushfires in Australian history.
One year on, residents and community leaders are calling for more action to be done to reduce climate change, to ensure such a catastrophe never takes place again. “We were heavily affected by the Grose Valley fire and the Gospels Mountain fire, both of which came incredibly, incredibly close to my house on both sides.”Luca evacuated to Victoria with her sister, and the pair were separated from their parents for three days, who stayed back to defend their house against apocalyptic conditions.
Luca said it was “incredibly frustrating” for bushfire survivors to see how the federal government responded to the crisis. An image taken from a plane window, captures smoke from the Gospers Mountain bushfires in December, 2019.Jim Casey, who has been a Sydney firefighter for more than 20 years, attended the Gospers Mountain blaze multiple times.
“We had a short and warm winter which narrowed the window in which we could do hazard reduction burning, and then summer was unseasonably hot, with dry lightning strikes at the tail end of the drought,” he said. “And so you end up with the climate catastrophic firestorm that characterised the last fire season.
Well do burn offs,let the cattle eat the under growth..but that would be too much common sense
And what is the LNP response? Build more coal and gas mines to ensure global warming produces more frequent more intense fires.
A song to remember our heroes and cowards
The government is not merely inactive on climate change; it's actually contrarian with worsening emissions via a gas-led recovery.
Lit by extinction rebellion arsonists.