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Australia's volunteer firefighters battle fatigue, injury and loss

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Moyle, who juggles firefighting shifts of up to 18 hours with running his own maintenance business and managing a family cattle station.

Hats off to you Mr. Moyle and all others involved. Hats off to all emergency service workers, professional and volunteer.

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World leaders need to take global warming more seriously . . . . https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/will-global-warming-produce-more-frequent-and-more-intense-wildfires?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

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We need to green the outback. Make it like the US midwest - a new breadbasket...or corn and rice.

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While the us never had midwest fires like this (west coast does), they've had the dustbowl. They changed how they do farming and it has helped. Australia could try something...

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