Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough? | World News,The Indian Express

Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough? | World News,The Indian Express

Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough?

FEBRUARY 3, 2020 9:49:12 AM

For more than a century, Australia has managed the landscape by drawing on the altruism and kinship of its people. In challenging terrain colonized after the United States, it was not the mythical cowboy who tamed the Australian frontier; it was the egalitarian collective, farmers working together to protect the land, with fire as the primary threat.