'Victoria isn't burning, but it will': Australia's fire chiefs fear fatigue will take terrible toll

With little sign of rain, there is growing concern about volunteers’ mental health and Australia’s capacity to tackle fires in numerous states

When Ned Haughton wrote emotionally of the terrible events in Bobin, north of Taree, earlier this week, it wasn’t only his neighbours, picking through the charred remains of their homes, who were stretched to the limit..

“I saw firefighter friends who I’ve known for years, still working after a few hours’ rest following 36 hours of chaos,” Haughton wrote, even before Tuesday’s “catastrophic” day of bushfire threat to NSW.

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