Grace Lee, Burnt house - An awful scenario (PLACES 2021)

The Greater Blue Mountains National Park is World Heritage-listed. My home is in the famous Three Sisters in Katoomba. It has been a very difficult for past six months for many in Australia after mega-fire continues to burn in Australia. The Gospers Mountain fire raged for 17 days across over 500,000 hectares until it was contained by firefighters in early January 2020. Blue Mountains unique environment and wildlife may 'never recover', expert warns. It could take centuries for the ecosystem to recover after the bush fires — if at all. An "awful scenario". It as one late afternoon, sunset time. We stop at Great highway, see a couple of houses were burnt hard in bushfires. Some 724 homes, 49 facilities and 1582 outbuildings have been destroyed so far this fire season. Six people have died and 2.7 million hectares have been scorched. A Fire chief loses house in Blue Mountains blaze too.

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