Mt Wilson Backburn in the media

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2019

• SMH: Firefighters lose control of 'mega-blaze' backburn, homes destroyed

• 7 News: Backburning in Gospers Mountain mega fire claims 20 buildings at Bilpin and Mt Wilson

• Financial Review: Bushfires to inspire class action suits

• The Australian: RFS backburning fanned megafire which claimed homes; smog to blanket Sydney

• ABC News: Mega-fire destroys homes north-west of Sydney after backburn gets out of control

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2020

• ABC: Australia heading into new 'fire age', warns global fire historian

• ABC RN Breakfast: Australia could be entering a new age of fire, expert says

• ABC 730 / ABC Investigations: Backburns backfired at Balmoral and the Blue Mountains, RFS investigation finds

• ABC 730: Debate over Backburning

• SMH: The hidden bushfire: inside the Blue Mountains backburn

• Daily Mail: The truth behind the deadly Gospers Mountain fire

2021

• Hawkesbury Post: Bilpin region residents are furious report blocked into RFS backburn that tore through area

• Blue Mountains Gazette: Backburn report kept secret

• SMH: The bushfire investigation the government wants to stay secret

• SMH: NSW Rural Fire Service exonerates itself over backburn gone wrong

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2022

• SMH: ‘Horrible mistake’: residents thought cataclysmic fire was days away

• Blue Mountains Gazette: Little communities not warned of approaching fire

• Illawarra Mercury: Gosper's Mountain backburn took out homes in 2019 Black Summer bushfires: Inquiry

• Blue Mountains Gazette: Backburn escaped, burnt homes

• Backburn area not examined
   

2023

• NSW Bushfires Coronial Inquiry wraps as Blue Mountains locals make last-ditch appeal on back-burn

• Sydney Morning Herald - ‘The best of a bad choice’: Megablaze was artificially enlarged by the Rural Fire Service

• ‘We could not hold it’: Can you fight fire with fire?

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