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Old 11th Dec 2019, 02:24
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Thee RFS trucks don't appear to have the personal protection systems that Victorian ones have, but apart from that, they seem to get a lot of work out of their trucks.. As far as I can tell, which is not much, the fire response in NSW has been managed very well. The NSW Government could perhaps throw quite a few million at new vehicles and facilities.

My main beef is that we need to adopt aboriginal burning practices and refrain from putting out "natural" fires in wilderness areas caused by lightening strikes because otherwise the fuel load builds up to the point where any fire is catastrophic. As a rule of thumb, all of it needs to be burned every five years or less to return the forests to the park - like state they were in at first settlement. This is a matter for Government policy, not the fire services.

To put that another way, the fuel load on the forest floor is going to burn sometime. You can have a holocaust of a fire every twenty years or a cool burn every five - your choice.

However all the above is personal opinion.
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