Coroner hands down report on Australia's Black Summer bushfire season

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The NSW coroner has completed an inquiry into Australia's 2019-20 bushfire season, recommending changes in alert systems, the use of aircraft and climate risk assessments.

The 2019–20 Black Summer fire season was the most severe ever recorded in NSW, burning 5.5 million hectares of land.The NSW coroner has completed an inquiry into Australia's 2019-20 bushfire season, recommending changes in alert systems, the use of aircraft and climate risk assessments.The scenes from the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires will never be forgotten by those who survived its ferocious impact."I was in the Berambing - with other people - when the back burn came through.

They include: the need for better training, better guidelines for aerial firefighting units, improvements to communications systems, and early warning and alert systems. But some impacted community members, like Blue Mountains resident Kooryn ] Sheaves, say they still want answers.

 

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