'Don't be complacent': Daintry lost her sister in the #bushfires. This is her message for Australia. #abc730 @lucethoughts @kirstenrobb
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The #bushfires that swept the country this summer were truly unprecedented in scale and destruction. More than 8 million hectares were burned, 33 people died and now thousands of people face the task of rebuilding shattered lives. #abc730
Farmer Jade Corby and his family lost their home and most of their livestock when #bushfires almost wiped the NSW town of #Cobargo off the map. #abc730
“It hasn’t been easy but there’s a lot of people that are worse off, a lot of families harder done by. But you know we’re all safe and that’s the main thing that we were worried about.” - Jade Corby. #abc730 #bushfires
“There is no doubt that this season is unprecedented in terms of the fire danger ratings that we experienced, the ones that were forecast and realised. And then of course, the amount of area that was burned.” - Shane Fitzsimmons @rfscommissioner @NSWRFS #abc730 #bushfires
Daintry Gerrand lost her sister in the #bushfires and almost lost her house. She warns people not to be complacent. “I think we need to all think about how we redesign the gardens around our house to give us a more defendable space." #abc730
"We've had an unprecedented area burnt. As of mid-January about 21% of the forests in south eastern Australia had burned." - Prof Ross Bradstock, @UOW Centre for Environmental Risk Management of #Bushfires #abc730
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