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Firestorm

By: Greg Mullins
Narrated by: Hazem Shammas
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 Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become Commissioner of one of the world's largest fire services, Fire and Rescue NSW, for nearly fourteen years. When it came to natural disasters there was little, if anything, he hadn't witnessed first-hand.


Over five decades he watched as weather patterns and natural disaster risks changed, seeing bushfires becoming bigger, hotter and more destructive. He talked to scientists and weighed their evidence with his experience, coming to the realisation that man-made global warming was setting the stage for a deadly firestorm. In early 2019 he tried to warn the government that a Black Summer was imminent so that adequate preparations could be made. . .


But when he and former fire chiefs from across the country tried to meet with politicians to sound an urgent warning, they were ignored.


Combining thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, Firestorm is a compelling account of raging fire, political evasion, settled science, and one man's courageous, urgent call to action for all Australians. Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Natural Disaster Government
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Being a career firefighter I got slot out of this book! Just wanted to keep listening!

Thoroughly enjoyed

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An absolutely, fantastically well written and read book, that balances comprehensive reasoning and explanations with brilliant story telling.
The whole book is exciting, inspiring, and paints a terrifying scene. It’s incredible to think that this story has been lived and that there is more to tell.

Not only all of the above, but I found this book incredibly educational. I have learnt an incredible amount in a short space of time with this book, and it has added to my drive to do more.

I could not recommend this book more.

Incredible

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A very interesting book from start to finish, well worth the read for anyone interested in the politics surrounding emergency management in Australia. I found the narrators phrasing and cadence was unnatural and distracting, had to listen on 1.3x so that I didn't hear it quite so much.

Great book, not well narrated

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I'm guessing most of us don't feel like reading a book like this as we're attempting to exit a pandemic, but the message is *so* important, and the writing is superb - it's informative and funny at times. It left me crying more than once and outraged even more so. Please read it/listen to it when you've got the mental headspace to do so - it's an important book

Every Aussie should read this

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To hear accounts from the frontline of increasingly devastating fire events in Australia is enlightening, heart wrenching and alarming. The narration is beautiful and the content is relevant and eloquent.
I can’t recommend this enough.

Critical reading for all Australians and beyond

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