“I have been fighting fires since 1972. There's been nothing like this before. We've lost nearly three times as many homes in New South Wales as the worst previous year in 2013 and we're not even really into summer.” Greg Mullin #TheDrum 
“It's the most disgusting, catastrophic fire I've ever been involved with. When you're stopped in the shopping centre by a couple that has lost everything, you soon find out you need to cry on their shoulder as much as they do on yours.” David West #TheDrum #bushfiresNSW
“Unfortunately, I am one of 680-odd people and families that everything has changed a lot for. We're just processing what's happened at the moment. That's all that you can do.” Kim McDonald lost her home in fires #bushfiresNSW #TheDrum
“They don't know what they are talking about. It makes me angry when people who are supposed to be leaders wimp out and don't want to talk about why it's getting worse.” Greg Mullin on politicians who refuse to acknowledge the effect of #climatechange on #NSWbushfires #TheDrum
“We have close to 1,000 people that can’t wake up in the morning and go to the bathroom. There are people who have lost everything. What are we going to do to fix that?” David West #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“People are in a position where they have been displaced and become refugees in their own community because of a bloody fire. So, where is the support for those people?” David West #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“The fire has gone, but the actual crisis is still here. So, the first part of it was actually coming to terms with the fact that everything that you owned and had collected and gathered in your life and your history has gone.” Kim McDonald #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“Since the #climatechange debate has been going since the '60s, when is the time? Because it's nearly 2020.” Kim McDonald #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“If I completely cleared a block of land and then replanted it to a tree, how long would it take before the biodiversity came back? I was told 50 years. We have sterilised and cremated the country.” David West #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“Places that shouldn't burn, that just can't burn in my experience as a firefighter, you look on the map at a wet area and think, “The fire will go out when it gets there” and it’s still burning.” Greg Mullin #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“If the Government can invest $150 million in finding a new planet, why not invest $150 million to help save our planet? I won't be leaving my home.” Joedie Lawler #TheDrum #climatechange #nswbushfires
“It's getting to a point where states and territories can't share firefighting resources as the season shifts south. That's #climatechange. We can't get large aircraft from California because our overlapping fire seasons early in the season.” Greg Mullin #TheDrum #nswbushfires
“I've been in the emergency services for 47 years now. There is a reason why people – police officers, ambulance officers, firefighters, SES volunteer, RFS volunteers – they don't stay for decades for no reason.” Greg Mullin on #bushfires bringing out the best in people #TheDrum
