Firefighters fear extremely dangerous bushfire season in 2023 and 2024

Record rainfall followed by a warmer winter has supercharged the growth of vegetation especially around NSW, VIC, and QLD.

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00:28 We're in what's called a bit of a snap drought at the moment.

00:31 We haven't had rain for some time.

00:33 We're in for another potentially very dangerous fire season.

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00:52 We're seeing frost now going across the landscape.

00:54 It's been killing all that grass, making it all ready to burn.

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01:05 We've got to do this work because if we don't,

01:08 then you know, potentially we'll pay the price for it in the summer.

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