Waiting for a megafire: the battle against Australia's biggest blaze
That worry for the hundreds of firefighters on the fringes of Sydney on Saturday is what is now known as The Gospers Mountain “megafire”. Made up of five separate fires which joined, it is now so big it has consumed more than 468,000 hectares of bushland and forest over the past few weeks.
It has thrown fire at thousands of people and communities, and now covers so many different regions of New South Wales that there are mountain residents, river people, and central coasters all battling the same beast.
Elsewhere in NSW and Victoria other fires have been just a fierce, some even making their own storms - a terrifying and uncontrollable effect of nature. But none are on the scale of Gospers.
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