Fire, then flood, then COVID, then more storms and floods. How do you gather hundreds of people to fight a fire without spreading disease? How do we keep going and what can you do to prepare?
You are not imagining it, there has been one thing after another this year.How are we going to fight fires and COVID?
Mr Ellis said the whole fluid nature of firefighting and the deployment of resources was going to change with these COVID arrangements. "We are in detailed discussions, with each state and territory currently about the willingness of those jurisdictions to either waiver quarantine requirements and/or what arrangements are needed in place," he said.
"Less crews, perhaps less people in vehicles, so that limits the operational capacity actually conduct fire fighting. All those factors are going to be limitations," said Mr Ellis.
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