Cultural Burning Stops Australian Inferno Dead in its Tracks.
How to effectively fight fire with fire. (We’re doing it all wrong).
The day the fire stood still.
The scintillating blazes slithered menacingly around the south-eastern coastline of New South Wales, Australia.
Twenty separate wildfires rampaged their way through the landscape, tearing through a thousand acres of countryside, devouring over 100 homes.
Blackened trees framed the beachside town of Tathra — when suddenly the sea of fire came to a halt.
It was a hot, dry day in March 2018. There was no rain. No firefighters put the flames out.
But to the relief and astonishment of the citizens of Tathra, the flames just stopped, as if someone had taken the oxygen out of the room.
Wildfires leave a barren landscape.
Six months after the 2018 wildfires, Victor Steffensen, an indigenous fire practitioner, walked a team of the Australian broadcast service reporters through the silent forest.
