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Memories of 1974-75 fire in Wentworth Shire

Brooke Littlewood

AGE is no barrier for Gerald Byrnes. The 92-year-old has volunteered with NSW Rural Fire Service at Wentworth since it was formed in 1952. Today, he is a group captain and the brigade’s longest-serving members with no plans for retirement in the near future. And as the bushfire crisis continues to ravage parts of Australia, […]

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