'Get the hell out of Dodge': the fight to save homes from the NSW central coast inferno

'Get the hell out of Dodge': the fight to save homes from the NSW central coast inferno:

In Kulnura, firefighters are tired, overstretched and angry with a government they say has shortchanged services

“You never know when it’s your turn, do you?”

Trevor Collis stands with a bucket in his hand, throwing water on a row of spot fires on the fence line. He’s bleary eyed and sooty, having helped keep one of eight current emergency fires in New South Wales from destroying the home of his daughter and her family.

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