7 Jan 2016
Kiwi firefighter explains the devastation at Victorian fires
New Zealand fire fighters are at the front lines of bushfires that have been burning for weeks in the Australian state of Victoria. More than a hundred people were evacuated from homes on Christmas Day because of the fires which are still burning along a stretch of the Great Ocean Road. The New Zealand team is staying in a camp near the town of Colac (Ko-lac) and working long days, in very steep terrain to contain the fire. Dunedin's deputy principal rural fire officer, Graham Still, is one of them and has just done a flyby of the area. He told me what he saw. regions]