Firefighter fatigue & the toll of prolonged bushfires

Friday 28 Mar 2025

 
In his more than three decades in Victoria's Country Fire Authority, Jarrod Dark has fought plenty of major fires, including Black Saturday and the Black Summer of 2019-20.

But no fire season has left him as exhausted as this summer in the Grampians. On January 6, fire crews gained control of the first Grampians fire of the summer, which sparked in mid-December. Just days later, a second bushfire ignited. 

The two fires burnt through more than 135,000 hectares of Grampians/Gariwerd National Park — an area larger than Hong Kong — leaving about 30,000 hectares of the park untouched. "When you're out in the back of your property and you can see the flames and you can hear them — it was a little bit more confronting," Mr Dark said.

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Source: ABC


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