Media Resources

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Press Releases:

• 19 June 2022 - RFS, Police tell Coroner they have not investigated Black Summer backburn fire at Mt Wilson

Links to various documents related to the Mt Wilson Backburn, Fire Management, Inquiries etc
 

• NSW Bushfire Inquiry 2020 Recommendation 47 (c) and (d) (pages 297-298)

• NSW Rural Fire Service OP 1.2.20 Operational Protocol for Backburning 2021

• Resilience NSW April-June 2021 Progress Report (page 38) 
   

• Independant Bushfire GroupFire Study into the Mt Wilson Backburn
   

Mt Wilson Backburn in the media

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2019

• SMH: Firefighters lose control of 'mega-blaze' backburn, homes destroyed

• The Australian: RFS backburning fanned megafire which claimed homes; smog to blanket Sydney

• ABC News: Mega-fire destroys homes north-west of Sydney after backburn gets out of control

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2020

• ABC: Australia heading into new 'fire age', warns global fire historian

• ABC RN Breakfast: Australia could be entering a new age of fire, expert says

• ABC 730 / ABC Investigations: Backburns backfired at Balmoral and the Blue Mountains, RFS investigation finds

• ABC 730: Debate over Backburning

• SMH: The hidden bushfire: inside the Blue Mountains backburn
   

2021

• Hawkesbury Post: Bilpin region residents are furious report blocked into RFS backburn that tore through area

• Blue Mountains Gazette: Backburn report kept secret

• SMH: NSW Rural Fire Service exonerates itself over backburn gone wrong

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2022

• SMH: ‘Horrible mistake’: residents thought cataclysmic fire was days away

• Blue Mountains Gazette: Little communities not warned of approaching fire

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