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News of the firefighters' deaths
News of the firefighters' deaths at Horsley Park, only a 40-minute drive away, "shattered my heart" she says.
'What am I doing
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here?' The mammoth, ongoing task has spurred a national conversation about support for firefighters. The Labor opposition, town
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mayors, and a firefighters' union have called for them to be compensated. "They volunteer as much as they can afford, sometimes even more than they can afford. It is not sustainable," says Mick Holton, president
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of the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association. It often involves long hours, weeks away from paid work, and accruing expenses along the way. Earlier this year, Mr Knox travelled to the
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town of Tenterfield to help fight blazes there. It was an eight-hour drive from Sydney - he paid for his own petrol.