The bush community of Wytaliba, like many others, is caught between healing from bushfire, pushing through Covid and crying out for leadership on climate
In November 2019 I wrote about the bushfires and burnoffs and calling for better political leadership. A few weeks ago we lit the first hazard reduction burn around our house since those fires. It brought up a few memories and feelings.
It’s two years now since the first fires came. They had been near Armidale and Tenterfield for a couple of weeks; then they were much closer. A hot day, a big wind and an ember from kilometres away landed high on the Leather Jacket Ridge that runs through the middle of Wytaliba, our 3,500-acre community. Over the next week, with calmer and cooler conditions that fire burned slowly downhill to our settlement areas. We had extensive help controlling the fire from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, with up to 20 firetrucks and 100 firefighters to augment our own brigade. No property lost, no one hurt. After a week the fire was out.
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