Away from the blare of sirens, the sound of aircraft bombers and the roar of bushfires tearing across NSW, a few dozen people sit in relative silence, absorbing and reacting to the ongoing natural disaster nswrfs | Rabe9
Away from the blare of sirens, the sound of aircraft bombers and the roar of bushfires tearing across NSW, a few dozen people sit in relative silence, absorbing and reacting to the ongoing natural disaster.
“The idea of the room is for the information to flow to the centre and back out again,” RFS inspector Ben Shepherd says from a balcony overlooking the firefighting nerve centre. By midday only one section of the screen remains red, the Green Wattle Creek fire, where RFS volunteers and young fathers Geoffrey Keaton and Andrew O’DwyerMr Shepherd says while some people shut off the emotional agony of what this year’s bushfires have dished out, everyone dealt with it differently.
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