Understorey: Fire on the Mountain

Understorey returns for 2020, wondering what’s it like to face a bushfire coming towards your property?   This week we bring part of a conversation with Alison Sexton-Green, on the road out of Braidwood, New South Wales, just before the majestic Clyde Mountain drop, the very place where the fires were heading towards Alison’s small and beautiful rural hideaway, just before Christmas…

(Photo: NASA, International Space Station view of the Australian bushfires, 4 January 2020)