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As Bulahdelah mourns dead firefighter, residents recall lucky escapes and say they have ‘never had fires like this’
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When Garry Morgan arrived home on Friday afternoon, his rural mid-north coast property was surrounded by a “big plume of smokeâ€. Less than twenty-four hours later, two houses on his street would be lost, and its surrounding forest reduced to blackened skeletal remains.
Morgan’s township of Bulahdelah, around 235km north of Sydney, has become at the centre of a tragedy after a veteran firefighter died on Sunday evening when he was struck by a falling tree, marking what the NSW premier called a “foreboding start†to the bushfire season.
A National parks and Wildlife Service firefighter on the ground near the Bulahdelah blaze. (ABC Newcastle: Bridget Murphy)
A firefighter from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has died after being crushed by a falling tree near a bushfire on the Mid North Coast.
The 59-year-old man was assisting with bushfire prevention work at Nerong on Sunday night when the incident occurred.
A crime scene has been established and WorkSafe has been notified.
A firefighter from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has died after being crushed by a tree during bushfire prevention work north of Newcastle.
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A community is mourning the death of a firefighter, as the days-long blaze he died battling flares further.
The experienced firefighter was helping colleagues prepare for a tactical burn north of Newcastle when he was struck and killed by a tree on Sunday night.
At least four homes were destroyed in the Bulahdelah fire on the weekend.Credit: Nine News
His death is the first bushfire fatality of the summer, which NSW Premier Chris Minns said had already been marked by “dark harbingers” of the threat facing the state after the loss of 20 homes over the weekend.
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