Welcome to the new year – Australia continues to usher in 2020 with bushfires.

Repost from The Australian Greens & The Guardian has a good wrap-up of what we know so far

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/01/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-australian-bushfire-crisis-on-new-years-day

And more on the story of NSW volunteer firefighter Samuel McPaul who died when a fire tornado overturned 10-tonne truck

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/volunteer-firefighter-samuel-mcpaul-died-when-fire-tornado-overturned-10-tonne-truck

& in pictures…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2020/jan/01/new-years-disaster-full-horror-of-australias-bushfires-begins-to-emerge-in-pictures

With the Mercury set to rise and peak again Saturday stay up to date friends https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me