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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Fireys and fury: exhausted volunteers decry PM’s claim they ‘want to be there’

As weeks of unprecedented bushfires take its toll on Australia’s volunteer firefighters, those who have given up work and sleep speak out

Dozens of firefighters have responded angrily to Scott Morrison’s comments on the bushfires on Tuesday, saying they are exhausted and hurt, and those giving up their income for weeks at a time needed assistance.

In response to questions from Guardian Australia on Tuesday, Morrison dismissed concerns that the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, the largest volunteer firefighting force in the world, was being stretched beyond endurance by the unprecedented scale of the bushfires.

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