Those who fought the Gospers Mountain fire, which burned for three months across New South Wales, reflect on the inferno two years later.
Two years has passed since Australia's largest bushfire razed more than a million hectares, but the scars are still burned into the memories of those who were there.Locals around Lithgow reflect on the fire which burned from October 2019 to January 2020They're afraid the next fire could be worse due to high fuel loads and climate change
The Gospers Mountain mega-blaze burned for almost three months and scorched hundreds of kilometres across the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, and Central Coast areas. It began with a lightning strike in the Wollemi National Park in late October 2019 during a long drought that had dried out bushland and evaporated water sources.In the week before Christmas, the fire arrived at the town and the nearby Wolgan Valley.
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