A reporter's reflection on covering the bushfires in NSW and Queensland

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This was a week that will be hard to forget, where emergency warnings seemed to blend in to one another, writes Josh Bavas.

ABC News: Josh BavasI was expecting a quiet afternoon on November 8 — tidying up a few loose ends and making some final calls for the week — when I received a call from my mum about a fire near her house in suburban Brisbane.

I knew there was a heightened fire danger across the state but this was a scenario I was least expecting. While it was brought under control by emergency crews and quick-thinking locals armed with garden hoses, it showed me a glimpse of the kind of fear people must experience when danger comes within reach of loved ones.Later that afternoon, an even greater monster would be bearing down on hundreds of people just south of the border in northern New South Wales.

Within hours, I was witnessing the aftermath of the devastation the fire brought to a small community nestled in the once-pristine forest.A log still burning the morning after fires ripped through Wytaliba, NSW.

 

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Why has the PM not mobilsed the RAAF to support our firefighters across the country? Even if the armed service only cooked meals/made sandwiches it would make a difference. We have military aircraft that could be utilised to drop water. auspol

I certainly hope the ABC does reflect, sometime anyway.

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