'Complete inaction': A firefighter from a small NSW town has written an open letter to Scott Morrison, calling him out for his “complete inaction” on the bushfire crisis.
Christopher Nicholls, a firefighter from Merimbula, wrote an open letter to the prime minister urging him to treat the fires as a national emergency rather than a minor weather event.
“And please don’t tell me about the pathetic response so far with more thoughts and prayers from Hillsong.”Source:Facebook “When my pager goes off in the middle of a hot, blustery severe fire danger day and I have to rush off to a bushfire, and as I am sitting in the truck proceeding under sirens and lights to the fire, I wonder if this might be my last day too.”
“Treat the situation as if it was a WAR being waged on Australia by an unpredictable enemy with considerable weaponry, capable of jumping front lines easily and attacking from several fronts simultaneously, with devastating results. It takes no prisoners,” he wrote. The Bureau of Meteorology warned this morning that rain that would break one of the worst droughts in history could still be more than five months away.
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