Meanwhile at the Climate Crisis Summit, we are hearing more and more about the impacts of climate change – including some things that people may not have considered before. 

“Droughts constrain the availability for water for fire-fighting,” said National Secretary of the United Firefighters Union of Australia, Greg McConville. 

That means there is more of a reliance on chemical fire retardance in large landscape fires. 

He said there have been calls for more firefighters for more than a decade, and the same calls are being made today.