Fire anxiety: tips for managing your mental health before and after a crisis

Fire anxiety: tips for managing your mental health before and after a crisis

Wires’ Tony De La Fosse with an orphaned wombat. Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

While Darren Baguley was stuffing the turkey on Christmas Day, his wife, Shireen, was putting out spot fires on their Nullo Mountain property in New South Wales. They’d been running on adrenaline for weeks, sleeping just four hours a night, protecting their home and orchard from wildfires encroaching from three directions while watching their paddocks burn.

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Published by The Guardian.

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